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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Dec 16

Discover the Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · 6d

During the early 1920s, O'Keeffe spent many autumn months in Lake George, New York, painting the vibrant trees of the Adirondack mountains. This maple tree was a particularly favorite subject of O’Keeffe’s.

Vertical canvas with center stylized grey tree - limbs and trunk spreading out and upwards into reddish, grey and some greenish blended color of arching planes.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · 10d

FINAL WEEKS–"Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life"

Don't miss your last chance to see the exhibition before it closes on October 19! Get tickets at gokm.org or at the link in our bio.

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📸 Museum Galleries © Georgia O'Keeffe

Photograph of a wall with a title "Making a Life" on a brown semi-circle with stitch-like designs. The wall opens up onto a room where a large painting of Mount Fuji in pink and white hangs under a row of skylights.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · 16d

Happy first day of fall! Kick off the season with this painting of a golden Birch tree. Soon, all the trees begin to resemble Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.

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Georgia O'Keeffe. Autumn Trees – The White Birch, 1924. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

A tree with silver limbs extends across the entire vertical canvas. The painting is filled with soft golden pigment and yellow paint evoking autumnal foliage.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · 23d

Beginning in the 1920s, Georgia O’Keeffe made small color cards as visual references when selecting her paints. Each card was a different shade, and many were inscribed with notes about the pigments.

See more cards in our Collections Online: collections.okeeffemuseum.org/search/?s=co...

Small pieces of paper painted with various shades of yellow and red paint. O’Keeffe has written notes on the upper portion of the color cards.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Sep 2

Have you seen our focused exhibition, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life,’ yet?

There are only a few weeks left to view the exhibition before it closes on October 19th. Don’t miss your chance to explore the many ways in which O'Keeffe was a maker.

🎟️ Tickets at gokm.org

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 21

Georgia O'Keeffe. Untitled (Abstraction Blue Curve and Circles), 1970s. Watercolor on paper, 30 1/2 x 22 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.530]

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 21

What does this painting remind you of?

In the 1970s, Georgia O’Keeffe found herself drawn back to spirals. This watercolor echoes the forms seen in her early abstract drawings, likely referencing the shape of her violin head.

A blue curved stroke, in the shape of a "?" with two blue circles beneath the curved stroke. Inside the curve are two blue circles. On top of the curve, are six blue dots. The immediate circle beneath the curve has four blue dots to its left and the subsequent circle has five blue dots to its right.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 8

Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe, The Black Place, 1944. gelatin silver print. Maria Chabot Archive. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Aug 8

Did you know Georgia O'Keeffe had cats?

In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz from 1944, O’Keeffe wrote, “We also got the cat—she is a very beautiful cat—dainty and beautiful—quite a dark Siamese—So now we have the cat.”

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 28

In 1939, O’Keeffe traveled to Hawai’i after accepting a commission to paint pineapple plants for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later Dole).

This trip proved immensely inspiring for O’Keeffe, who returned home with numerous paintings, including this one of a belladonna.

Two large swirling white flowers, one atop the other. The interior of the bottom flower is visible, yet the top flower is tilted upward hiding it's center. The two flowers fill the majority of the canvas, with a sliver of blue - perhaps an ocean horizon line along the top.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe, Breakfast, The Black Place, 1944. contemporary photographic print, 5 x 7. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [RC.2001.2.97e]

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 21

Georgia O’Keeffe often took "motor outings," as she called them, packing her gear in her Ford and camping for several days.

In this photograph, O’Keeffe eats breakfast in the Bisti De-Na-Zin wilderness in the Navajo Nation, about 150 miles away from her home in Ghost Ranch.

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Santa Fe Public Library @sfnmpl.bsky.social · Jul 6

#FamilyDay w/ #LibraryStorytime: Lines, Circles, and Shapes, Oh My! @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 1

Georgia O’Keeffe. Lavender Hill with Green, 1952. Oil on canvas, 12 x 27 3/16 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [1997.5.10]

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 1

“All the earth colors of the painter’s palette are out there in the many miles of bad lands [sic]. The light Napes yellow through the ochres—orange and red and purple earth—even soft earth greens.” — Georgia O’Keeffe, 1939.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jul 1

In her paintings of the New Mexico landscape, Georgia O’Keeffe recorded the brilliant colors of the high desert as she saw them. O’Keeffe spent hours, sometimes days, exploring the land by foot and automobile, looking for her next subject—red mountains, yellow cliffs, or purple hills.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jun 11

Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait. 1929; Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 11.4 × 8.9 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) Getty Research Institute. Object Number [93.XM.25.27]

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jun 9

From 1918 until 1934, Georgia O'Keeffe spent part of each year at Alfred Stieglitz's family estate in Lake George, New York. In this portrait from 1929, Alfred Stieglitz photographed Georgia O'Keeffe in a swimsuit, ready for a dip in the lake.

Black and white photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe in a swimsuit and light shoes holding a towel and a brush. She is standing on a hill with a sky behind.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Jun 2

Want to know more about preserving Georgia O’Keeffe’s book room? Join a conversation with the Museum’s Assistant Librarian and Preservation Specialist about the ongoing project to catalog and move the artist’s book collection from Abiquiú to Santa Fe: www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/morni...

Preserving Georgia O’Keeffe’s Personal Libraries - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

For June’s Mornings with O’Keeffe program, join the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Assistant Librarian & Preservation Specialist, Bonnie Steward as she shares about the ongoing project…

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · May 20

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Free and Discounted Admission Opportunities - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum | Santa Fe Explore the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s free and discounted admission opportunities. Advance tickets are recommended for best availability. Review general…

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · May 20

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is a Blue Star Museum!

As part of Blue Star Museums, we’re happy to offer free admission to all active-duty military personnel and up to five family members beginning today through Labor Day (September 1, 2025).

Advance reservations are recommended!

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · May 13

Georgia O'Keeffe. Untitled (Figure), 1916-1917. Graphite on paper, 3 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.65] and [2006.5.66]

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · May 13

Georgia O’Keeffe regularly experimented with abstraction and representation, finding different ways to paint or sketch the same subject. “It is surprising to me to see how many people separate the objective from the abstract,” she said. To O’Keeffe, “objectivity” and “abstraction” were intertwined.

Graphite sketch of an abstract/half completed face. On the side of the face closest to the right side of the paper one eye and a line delineating the mouth contrast with the other side of the face which is blank. The curvature of the jaw is the focus of the drawing, it is the boldest and strongest line in the work.

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · May 8

Alexander Girard and Georgia O’Keeffe —Modernism’s kindred spirits.

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Learn about the upcoming New Mexico Collection from Herman Miller: store.hermanmiller.com/collection-n...

The fruitful friendship of Alexander Girard and Georgia O’Keeffe

Discover how famed Herman Miller textile designer Alexander Girard and Georgia O’Keeffe, who struck up a friendship in Santa Fe based on mutual interests and respect, inspired and influenced each othe...

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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 22

Unknown. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1940-1960. Gelatin silver print, 8 1/4 x 7 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Museum Purchase. [2014.3.94]