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Georgia O'Keeffe, Pedernal with Red Hills (Red Hills with the Pedernal), 1936, oil on linen, 19…
Georgia O'Keeffe's Legacy in New Mexico
Georgia O'Keeffe, Pedernal with Red Hills (Red Hills with the Pedernal), 1936, oil on linen, 19…
Georgia O'Keeffe, Pedernal with Red Hills (Red Hills with the Pedernal), 1936, oil on linen, 19 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Bequest of Helen Miller Jones, 1986 (1986.137.18). © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Photo by Blair Clark.

Georgia O'Keeffe's Legacy in New Mexico

Friday, February 17, 2006 - Sunday, September 09, 2007
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) first painted in New Mexico during the summer of 1929 while visiting Mabel Dodge Luhan, the organizer of a modernist enclave in Taos. Luhan reported that O’Keeffe exclaimed "This is wonderful. No one told me it was like this."