The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened to the public in July 1997, eleven years after the death of the artist from whom it takes its name. Welcoming visitors from all over the world, it is the only museum in the United States dedicated to an internationally-known woman artist.
06/09/2025
“The days have been warm and still…the green so near and close—all about one— and the lake and mountains hazy out there.” — Georgia O’Keeffe to Mabel Dodge Lujan, September 1929.
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’s icy waters.
⛱️ What are your favorite summer activities? Let us know in the comments!
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Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait. 1929; Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 11.4 × 8.9 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) Getty Research Institute. Object Number [93.XM.25.27]
06/06/2025
One of Georgia O’Keeffe’s favorite pastimes while summering at Lake George was rowing in Tea Island Bay—a small inlet with lush views of the surrounding forests and rugged peaks.
Several paintings resulted from her time rowing on the lake, including these two pieces where O’Keeffe transforms the natural world into an abstract composition, capturing the scenery seen from the boat.
What stands out to you in these paintings? Let us know in the comments!
Want to know more about preserving Georgia O’Keeffe’s book room? Join a special virtual conversation with the Museum’s Assistant Librarian and Preservation Specialist about the ongoing project to catalog and move the artist’s book collection from Abiquiú to Santa Fe.
Free Online Talk | Preserving Georgia O’Keeffe’s Personal Libraries
June 4, 9 AM MT.
For June’s Mornings with O’Keeffe program, join the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Assistant Librarian & Preservation Specialist, Bonnie Steward as she shares about the ongoing project…
05/30/2025
Warmer weather means it’s time to bring your sketchbooks outside!
Whether in an Urban Sketching class capturing the details of adobe buildings or in a Nature Sketching session at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, we offer classes for artists of all skill levels!
POV: You walk into Gallery 1 of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and see ‘Pink Tulip, 1925’ for the first time.
Only exhibited three times during Georgia O’Keeffe’s lifetime, this piece is one of four tulips painted by the artist between 1925 and 1926. Get a closer look at ‘Pink Tulip’ in person at the Museum!
Happy Birthday Alexander Girard! in 1907, Girard was a remarkable artist, textile designer, and architect. Alexander Girard, together with his wife Susan, were great friends of O’Keeffe’s and visited her frequently in Abiquiú. Girard and O’Keeffe inspired each other and enjoyed experimenting with colors, patterns, and textures in their work and in their living spaces.
Swipe to see a pillow Girard gifted O’Keeffe with a beautiful, spiraled snake motif on one side and an “International Love Heart” design on the other.
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Unknown Photographer. Georgia O’Keeffe with Alexander Girard and Susan Girard at Nacimiento exhibition, 1961. Alexander Girard Collection. AR.00019, Box 30, Folder 4. Bartlett Library and Archives, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM.
Alexander Girard. Pillow, 1960s. Cotton, 14 1/2 W x 15 L x 2 D inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Catherine and Earl Krueger Family in memory of Catherine Klenert, sister of Georgia O'Keeffe. [2007.4.67]
05/21/2025
Today is ! Georgia O’Keeffe’s love for tea is seen in her collection of teapots—from cast-iron to porcelain pots. Mint tea, one of the artist’s favorites, was served in her kitchen after the noon meal and after supper. O’Keeffe grew three different types of mint in her Abiquiú garden, which were dried and preserved in the fall.
🫖 What is your favorite kind of tea? Let us know in the comments.
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. To reserve your free tickets through the Blue Star Museums program, please call 505-946-1000 or email [email protected].
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.
In these two graphite drawings of a ‘Figure,’ O’Keeffe simplified a face into abstract lines and shapes. What stands out to you?
“Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small…I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.” — Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘About Myself,’ 1939.
Georgia O’Keeffe found beauty in the smallest natural details—from the curve of a new stem to the color of decaying leaves. O’Keeffe often magnified flowers across the entire canvas, using close-cropping techniques she learned from modernist photography to extend their details beyond the frame.
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Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait – With Flowers. Negative 1934. Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 11.1 × 7.9 cm (14 3/8 × 3 1/8 in.) Getty Research Institute. Object Number [93.XM.25.75]
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The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened to the public in July 1997, eleven years after the death of our namesake artist. A visit to the O’Keeffe Museum offers insight not only into the artist’s paintings, but also her creative process and the light and landscape that inspired her. In addition to the main Museum campus in Santa Fe, the O’Keeffe Museum maintains O’Keeffe’s two homes and studios in northern New Mexico, a research center and library, and a variety of collections relating to O’Keeffe and modern art.
One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.” O’Keeffe’s images—instantly recognizable as her own —include abstractions, large-scale depictions of flowers, leaves, rocks, shells, bones and other natural forms, New York cityscapes and paintings of the unusual shapes and colors of architectural and landscape forms of northern New Mexico.
The Museum’s collections of over 3,000 works comprises 140 O’Keeffe oil paintings, nearly 700 drawings, and hundreds of additional works dating from 1901 to 1984, the year failing eyesight forced O’Keeffe into retirement. Throughout the year, visitors can see a changing selection of these works. In addition, the Museum presents exhibitions that are either devoted entirely to O’Keeffe’s work or combine examples of her art with works by her American modernist contemporaries.
In 2006, the Museum took responsibility for the care and preservation of O’Keeffe’s home and studio along the Chama River in Abiquiu, New Mexico, about an hour north of Santa Fe. A national historic landmark and one of the most important artistic sites in the United States, the home where the artist lived and worked is open for tours by appointment. O’Keeffe’s first home in New Mexico, about 30 minutes northwest of Abiquiu at the Ghost Ranch is also cared for by the Museum though it is not currently open to the public.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center opened in July 2001 to house offices for staff and fellows, and The Michael S. Engl Family Foundation Research Center Library. The Research Center serves as the intellectual hub of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum by promoting and sponsoring research and conversation about Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, the Stieglitz Circle, and their contemporaries. It also promotes research into issues of Modernist art, architecture, design photography, literature, and music from the 1890s to the present. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s unique library and archive collections in the Research Center Library are open to the public by appointment.
Educational programs at the Museum serve more than 7,100 students and adults per year with a robust slate of workshops, lectures, conversations, and classroom activities.
