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Preserving, presenting, and advancing the artistic legacy of Georgia O’Keeffe and Modernism through innovative public engagement, education, & research.

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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-...
Photograph of a table on which is placed prints and illustrations of a flat-topped mountain. Photograph of a flat-topped mountain in the background and to the left a building on which a ladder is leaning. In the foreground is the quote "If we keep on just telling the history of Georgia O'Keeffe, then we're not telling the full history..." by Bess Murphy, Luce Curator of Art and Social Practice. Portrait of two people standing shoulder to shoulder. On the left, a person stands with short hair and round earrings, wearing a black wrap dress. On the right is a person with a black t-shirt and grey long hair pulled back. Photograph of a person's hands as they lean on a table. The table is covered in prints and illustrations of a flat-topped mountain.
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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/...
Silkscreen print of a desert horizon with a large cloud rising in the sky above. The entire piece is composed in shades of bright orange and fluorescent golden red. 'Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country' is at the top and the O'Keeffe Museum logo is at the bottom along with 'Opening November 7.'
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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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."
Small painting of red triangle of a barn above a sea of yellow wheat, in a blue sky filled with white clouds.
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The perfect way to start the weekend: You + the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

🎟️ Tickets: https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/
Two people wearing dark jackets, one in profile, stand in front of a painting of soft clay hills of grey, black, and pink. Through the center a large stripe of black makes a V shape though the grey. Blended areas of pink on the grey are on either side of this V in the bottom half of the canvas.
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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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.
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.
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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.
September 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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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
September 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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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.
August 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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.”
August 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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.
July 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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.
July 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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.
July 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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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.
June 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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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!
May 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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.
May 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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“—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!
Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe standing in the New Mexican landscape; profile view of O'Keeffe wearing a black head scarf, a black wrap dress over a white dress with desert grasses in foreground and mountains, sky, and clouds in background: arm is folded across waist while she looks forward with a small smile.
April 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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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!
O'Keeffe describes this painting as " just the arms of two red hills reaching out to the sky holding it." This painting can be viewed as an organic abstraction contemplating the intersection of an expansive flat of blue sky and the V shape of the sandy red hills below.
April 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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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.
A group of four people stand in a line on the edge of an overlook. The group includes three women in skirts or dress and hats and one man wearing dark trousers and a hat. Behind them is a vast desert landscape and large open sky.
April 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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!
March 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“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.
A large cottonwood grows from the lower left corner of the scene. Its trunk diverges into three thick branches as it rises above the ground. Soft patches of paint along the branches define the foliage. Similar cottonwoods grow in the distance. An irrigation ditch runs diagonally across the lower right corner of the scene, as well.
March 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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.
The composition is a foreshortened vertical abstraction of a corner of an adobe fireplace with a white vase and feather sitting on the mantel adjacent to a yellow ochre vertical stripe. A single white feather has been placed in a white vase as the focal point of the work.
February 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A blue sky for Bluesky! ☁️
Large canvas of aerial view of the sky from above the cloud level. To the point of the horizon at 2/3 of the canvas the sky is vibrant blue dotted with islands of white clouds like icebergs in the sea. The top 1/3 is the pale horizon fading from salmon peach to grey-blue to the edge of the canvas.
January 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM