Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Art museum in Santa Fe, United States
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is an art museum in Santa Fe, United States, presenting paintings, drawings, and personal belongings of the American modernist artist. The collection focuses on her depictions of New Mexico landscapes, close-up flowers, and abstract forms created during her decades working in the Southwest.
The private, non-profit museum was founded in November 1995 by philanthropists Anne Windfohr Marion and John L. Marion, part-time Santa Fe residents. It opened on July 17, 1997, eleven years after O'Keeffe's death, in a building designed by Richard Gluckman with Allegretti Architects. The collection began with 140 O'Keeffe works and now numbers nearly 1,200 objects.
The museum's name honors Georgia O'Keeffe, who lived and worked in New Mexico from 1949 until her death in 1986. Its Abiquiu Home and Studio, about 53 miles north of Santa Fe, was her primary residence from the late 1940s; public tours run March through November. Local students plant and harvest the artist's garden there each year.
The museum sits in a Pueblo Revival Style building in downtown Santa Fe, within easy walking distance from the Plaza. The interior spaces spread across two floors and include galleries with natural light as well as a museum shop and research library for visitors.
The collection began with 140 paintings, watercolors, pastels and sculptures and now numbers nearly 1,200 objects. The museum also owns O'Keeffe's second house at Ghost Ranch, 20 minutes north of Abiquiú, which is not open to the public. The Abiquiu garden is planted and harvested each year by local students.
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