Georgia O'Keefe is one of New Mexico's most famous residents, and a legendary American artist.
Beginning in 1929, Georgia O'Keeffe spent her summers painting in New Mexico.
In 1949, O'Keeffe moved permanently from New York to her beloved New Mexico, whose stunning vistas and stark landscape configurations had inspired her work since 1929. She lived at her Ghost Ranch house, which she purchased in 1940, and at the house she purchased in Abiquiu in 1945. O'Keeffe continued to work in oil until the mid–1970s, when failing eyesight forced her to abandon painting. Although she continued working in pencil and watercolor until 1982, she also produced objects in clay until her health failed in 1984. She died two years later, at the age of 98.
The Georgia O'Keefe Museum is located in Santa Fe.
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