Coming November 7 to the O'Keeffe Museum: “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country” How does a Museum that bears Georgia O’Keeffe’s name shed light on the long-excluded voices and stories of a shared place? Read more: hluce.org/this-is-not-...

Opening November 7— “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country” The works of twelve artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos of Northern New Mexico come into dialogue with Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and personal objects. Learn more: www.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibitions/...

In 1928, Georgia O’Keeffe returned to her home state of Wisconsin for a few months. During this trip, the artist revisited the barns she had known in her youth. O’Keeffe described the barns as "wonderful—not what is ordinarily called picturesque—They just seem alive all the way through."

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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.

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. — 📸 Museum Galleries © Georgia O'Keeffe

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

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...

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

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.

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.”

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.

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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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.

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.

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...

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!

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.

Alexander Girard and Georgia O’Keeffe —Modernism’s kindred spirits. Read more: www.hermanmiller.com/stories/why-... Learn about the upcoming New Mexico Collection from Herman Miller: store.hermanmiller.com/collection-n...

“—The mountain and the plain at its foot were all snowy this morning—When I look out at the windy snow I am glad spring is on the way in…” Georgia O'Keeffe wrote in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz postmarked April 22, 1944. 🌱 How are you celebrating Earth Day? Let us know in the comments!

After she began her annual sojourns to New Mexico, the sky figured increasingly in Georgia O’Keeffe’s work. O’Keeffe described this painting as " just the arms of two red hills reaching out to the sky holding it." 🔎 See this piece in person at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum!

Georgia O’Keeffe (far right) hiking with friends in Texas. Between 1916–1918, O’Keeffe taught at West Texas State Normal College in the Panhandle town of Canyon, Texas. In her free time, O'Keeffe would walk along the roads surrounding the town or trek through the nearby Palo Duro Canyon.

Happy #FirstDayOfSpring! In this floral still life, Georgia O’Keeffe magnified the white blossoms of the jimson weed, enlarging the petals and leaves in a composition full of movement. 🔎 In Indianapolis? See this piece in person at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields!

“The wind is careless—uncertain—I like the wind—it seems more like me than anything else—I like the way it blows things around roughly—even meanly—then the next minute seems to love everything…” – Georgia O’Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz, October 1, 1917.

Georgia O’Keeffe collected bones, stones, and even feathers to paint. In ‘White Feather, 1941,’ O’Keeffe depicts a single bird feather in a vase as the piece's focal point. 🪽 What stands out to you in this painting? Let us know in the comments.

A blue sky for Bluesky! ☁️

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