This unique book offers remarkable insight into the life and work of one of America’s most celebrated artists. The photographs and the accompanying text offer, for the first time, a compelling picture of Georgia O’Keeffe’s life in New Mexico.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s two houses in New Mexico—at Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch—are essential elements in her paintings, but their history has never before been detailed.
Quoting liberally from the artist’s letters, Barbara Buhler Lynes and Agapita Judy Lopez create a vibrant picture of O’Keeffe (1887–1986) and her homes, which have long intrigued the public. They explain how each home satisfied difference aspects of O’Keeffe’s personal and professional needs and how she gradually transformed these Pueblo Revival–style houses to reflect her modernist aesthetic.
An essay by architect Beverly Spears describes the dis
