O'Keeffe and New Mexico

January 14, 2006 - February 08, 2006

“O’Keeffe and New Mexico” is an exhibition of photographs by Maria Chabot of her friend Georgia O’Keeffe, and of O’Keeffe’s houses at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu. The exhibition also includes photographs of some of the landscape configurations that inspired O’Keeffe’s New Mexico landscape paintings. O’Keeffe purchased the Ghost Ranch house in 1940 and the Abiquiu house in 1945. Chabot managed the Ghost Ranch house from 1941 to 1944, and managed the rebuilding of the Abiquiu house from 1945 to 1949.

Over the years, many professionals photographed O’Keeffe, producing highly studied representations of the artist that helped shape the severe and uncompromising image by which she is most generally known. The candid and spontaneous photographs in “O’Keeffe and New Mexico,” however, provide rare glimpses of a little-known and very human side of O’Keeffe.