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Article: Georgia on my mind: this month, Santa Fe opens an ambitious museum dedicated to the works of Georgia O'Keeffe. High time, too.(Santa Fe, New Mexico)
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- Town & Country
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- July 1, 1997
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This month, Santa Fe opens an ambitious museums dedicated to the works of Georgia O'Keeffe. High time, too.
In 1917, while on a trip north from Canyon,Texas, where she was then teaching, the 30-year-old Georgia O'Keeffe first saw--and fell in love with--the high desert country of New Mexico that would become her lifelong muse. "When I got to New Mexico, that was mine," she wrote. It was an attachment that bordered on the mystical, as the paintings that O'Keeffe produced over half a century of first visiting, then living in, New Mexico attest. They show the stark red mesas surrounding remote Ghost Ranch, where she spent her summers; the bones baking against the ...
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