THE GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM MAGAZINE
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It’s show time. All the time.
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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2O18–19 Roxanne Decyk, Chair Chicago, IL; Santa Fe, NM
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Jack L. Kinzie, President Dallas, TX; Santa Fe, NM Jane C. Bagwell, Treasurer Santa Fe, NM; Dallas, TX Ramona Sakiestewa, Secretary Santa Fe, NM Ronald D. Balser Atlanta, GA; Santa Fe, NM
2 The Use of Land
Diane E. Buchanan Santa Fe, NM
3 From the Director
Kathleen Clarke Houston, TX; Santa Fe, NM
4 Conservation
Felicitas Funke Ketchum, ID Susan J. Hirsch Dallas, TX; Santa Fe, NM
6 Colin Noble and the O’Keeffe Welcome Center 9 Welcome Center Opening 10 Creative Activity
Robert Holleyman Washington, DC; Santa Fe, NM
11 New Faces
Donald D. Humphreys Dallas, TX
12 Happening at the O’Keeffe
Jackie Lovelace Johnson Mission Hills, KS John L. Marion Fort Worth, TX; Santa Fe, NM
15 Members 18 Where in the World Is Georgia O’Keeffe?
Deborah A. Peacock Albuquerque, NM Gary “Skip” Poliner Santa Fe, NM Christine Schuepbach Dallas, TX Barton E. Showalter Dallas, TX Joanna Lerner Townsend Dallas, TX; Santa Fe, NM David Warnock Baltimore, MD Robert A. Kret, ex officio Santa Fe, NM Laura Bush, Honorary Dallas, TX Saul Cohen, Honorary Santa Fe, NM
O’Keeffe Magazine is published for Members of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Send correspondence to: Mara Christian Harris, Communications Manager 217 Johnson Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 E-mail: mharris@okeeffemuseum.org Summer 2018 Published by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. © 2018. No reproduction of images or content permitted.
Lee E. Dirks, Honorary Lahaina, HI Santa Fe, NM Emily Fisher Landau, Honorary New York, NY; Palm Beach, FL Joann K. Phillips, Honorary Santa Fe, NM Juan Hamilton, Special Consultant to the Board Honolulu, HI; Abiquiú, NM; Santa Fe, NM Anne W. Marion, Chair Emeritus & Founder Fort Worth, TX; Santa Fe, NM
ON THE COV ER : Georgia O’Keeffe. Storm Cloud, Lake George, 1923.
Oil on canvas, 18 x 301/8 in. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [2007.1.18].
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THE USE OF LAND On May 17, artist Michael Namingha joined Lucy R. Lippard, author, activist, and curator, in a discussion that explored the use of land in New Mexico. Namingha’s artwork is featured in the Museum’s galleries in the installation The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha. Following the conversation at the Eldorado Hotel, members gathered in the Museum’s courtyard and galleries for a reception to meet the artist.
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1. Lucy Lippard and Michael Namingha in conversation at the Eldorado Hotel and Spa 2. Joyce Blalock with Rob Kret at the reception 3. Members en route to the reception 4. Bill and Martha Baker with Judith Hansen 5. Michael Namingha with Bill Baker and Neal Hansen 6. Cody Hartley, Rob Kret, and Michael Namingha converse with Della Bachicha 7.Champagne and white wine provied by Gruet All photos © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Director Robert A. Kret with Board Chair Roxanne Decyk. Photo © James Edwards.
FROM THE DIRECTOR The landscape of northern New Mexico was a great source of inspiration for Georgia O’Keeffe. We at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum are deeply excited by a number of current initiatives that give us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in that landscape. We hope you will be inspired as well. The recent opening of the O’Keeffe Welcome Center, in Abiquiú, marked an exciting new chapter for the Museum. The facility will serve as an educational resource for visitors,
connecting the public to Georgia O’Keeffe’s life in the Rio Chama Valley. It will also promote recreational and cultural activities in the area, and provide a place where school groups and adults can enjoy a variety of creative programs. We celebrated the Welcome Center’s Grand Opening on May 19 with many of our neighbors and with you, our members. The opening was a festive afternoon filled with ceremony, music, families, stories, and art—a perfect way to honor this landmark event. The Welcome Center’s creation was a tremendous group effort, and I am especially grateful to Colin Noble, of Noble Hospitality, Inc., who orchestrated the building’s design and construction. I am also thankful to our staff, who brought it all together through design, interpretation, and leadership. Through a recent partnership, the Abiquiú Land Grant Board, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum created a scholarship program for descendants of Abiquiú Land Grant families. We undertake this investment in the future of our community in the spirit of Georgia O’Keeffe’s own generosity, which included her support for education. This spirit of giving is also at the heart of our summer youth programs. This year we are proud to welcome our new student interns in the Garden Project in Abiquiú, as well as those participating in the Art and Leadership Programs in Santa Fe. The kids’ involvement is a highlight of the season, and each year we look forward to their arrival. Another exciting arrival is that of our new Curator of Fine Art, Ariel Plotek. Ariel’s studies and career have taken him to London, Paris, New York, and, most recently, San Diego, where he was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art. We are excited to welcome Ariel, and look forward to incorporating into the O’Keeffe Museum team his experience, perspective, and enthusiasm. It is not lost on me that it is through the continuing support of you, our members, that we are able to grow and prosper— thank you for your unwavering generosity. You are key to these exciting developments, and I am grateful to have you as partners in this continuing adventure.
Robert A. Kret Director, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
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Dale Kronkright, Head of Conversation, works on removing varnish from Storm Cloud, Lake George, filmed by Narrative Media for the in-gallery video. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT INSTALLATION AND INTERACTIVE COMES TO SANTA FE GALLERIES “Museums are places of discovery. We’re doing what O’Keeffe told us to do: ‘look closer’.” —DALE KRONKRIGHT, HEAD OF CONSERVATION
Between 1918 and 1934, Georgia O’Keeffe spent part of each year at Alfred Stieglitz’s family estate in Lake George, New York. In a letter to artist Arthur Dove, written in 1923, Stieglitz describes the legendary rolling thunderstorms of Lake George, and his and O’Keeffe’s experience of a walk they took during one such storm:
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. . . the Sky was black & the Lake black & near the horizon JANUARY CLOSURE southward there was a dirty yellowish cloud. Georgia said Caring forfeeling O’Keeffe’s legacyit goes beyond she did not like the – I thought wonderful – It looked conservation and preservation and as if the day of judgement had come and thereincludes wasn’t a maintaining the cold. Museum herparticularly work. From breath of air – but it was The that Lakeholds looked January 23 through 26, the Museum galleries in foreboding. I had never seen it that way. Santa Fe will close for maintenance; the Museum willStorm also be closed. The Museum’sStore beloved Cloud, Lake George, which O’Keeffe painted in oils in 1923, was until recently accepted as a nighttime imagining of her time spent there. Recent conservation treatment of the painting, and research scholarship about its
context, suggest that Storm Cloud, Lake George may be telling a different story. Three layers of varnish applied in the decades since the painting’s creation obscured the artist’s original intention. The shiny film applied to preserve the painting by previous caretakers had altered the abstract qualities and textures of O’Keeffe’s creation. Head of Conservation Dale Kronkright, was thrilled at “…seeing her matte, opaque paint. This is not supposed to be saturated, dark, and translucent. What we see is a completely different painting.” The layers of varnish caused the colors to be dark and saturated, and obscured O’Keeffe’s original subtle shifts of light and dark. After careful analysis, Kronkright has begun removing the layers of varnish from the paint layers, revealing, instead of a deeply saturated, glossy painting, a matte, opaque, lighter image. The newly visible light greens, blues, and browns are transforming our understanding of O’Keeffe’s original intentions for this work. The revelation is also notable because researchers believe it to be O’Keeffe’s earliest known use of matte-textured paints, an observation hidden by the layers of gloss varnish. O’Keeffe did not favor the use of varnish, which she felt homogenized the color in her paintings. Varnish is generally used to protect the surface of a work and to saturate the color of oil paints, making some colors appear more vibrant. It is also now evident that what O’Keeffe captured was not a nocturne, but an afternoon storm. Conservation occurs constantly at the O’Keeffe, although
this scientific detective work takes place in the climate-controlled vault away from the public eye. It is an integral part of the Museum’s mission to preserve, protect, and advance O’Keeffe’s artistic legacy. This summer, an innovative installation will reveal more details about conservation and this fascinating discovery. The Museum will install the partially conserved painting in the galleries—a perspective seldom made available or seen by the public outside of a conservation lab—giving audiences a chance to compare the work in its varnished form with O’Keeffe’s original creation. In addition, cutting-edge imaging techniques such as reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), UV-induced visible fluorescence, and digital infrared (IR) photography have contributed enormous amounts of data to our understanding of this work. A special touchscreen will be placed in the gallery to help visitors further explore the scholarship behind the scientific analysis of the painting, and the delicate process of removing the varnish. The partially-conserved Storm Cloud, Lake George will be on view June 27 through October 28. After that time, it will return to the lab for Kronkright to complete its treatment. Once finished, the fully restored Storm Cloud, Lake George will be on regular view at the Museum, accompanied by the interactive exhibition materials about the project’s merging of art, history, and science.
Conservation in progress, showing area without varnish on left of image, with the varnished image on the right. Georgia O’Keeffe, Storm Cloud, Lake George, 1923. Oil on canvas, 18 x 301⁄8 in. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
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COLIN NOBLE AND THE O’KEEFFE WELCOME CENTER
ABOVE: Colin Noble. © Rod Mikinski Photography, Inc. NEXT PAGE, BOTTOM RIGHT: Colin Noble cuts the ribbon at opening ceremonies
for the Welcome Center. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
The parking lot at the Abiquiu Inn is jam-packed on an afternoon in early May, leaving a visitor to circle once, twice, three times before lucking on a space. Though it’s nowhere near high season for tourism in northern New Mexico, this charming village inn just off Highway 84 is abuzz, much to the delight of its owner, Colin Noble, an amiable, blue-eyed hotelier from Belfast, Ireland who purchased the property in 2002. “I have spent many years upgrading and expanding this place, to nearly double the size,” Noble says; “and now, this.” He beams as a steady stream of visitors moves in and out of the property’s newest addition: the O’Keeffe Welcome Center. Created in collaboration with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the 5000-square-foot facility is the launching point for tours of the O’Keeffe Home and Studio, an information hub for the history and culture of the Rio Chama Valley, and a community gathering space for Abiquiú residents. “Already, lines out the door,” Noble continues. “On a day like today, walking below these trees, seeing this beautiful building, it’s terrific here. We think they are just going to keep coming.” Noble’s optimism is infectious as he guides a visitor through the Center—from the O’Keeffe Welcome Center Store, to attractive video and information spaces, to a community classroom. Pristine
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white walls, comfortable lighting, and inviting interiors radiate a warm welcome in the modern minimalist aesthetic for which O’Keeffe is renowned. Indeed, Noble says, the building’s clean lines and large corner windows were designed to echo the elegant architectural simplicity and natural light that distinguish the artist’s Abiquiú home. “Sometimes you get the right proportions, the right height of the ceilings, the right light,” he says. “It just feels great in here. Even the air smells new.” New was necessary, Noble says, considering that the previous welcome center, a 1,000-square-foot former laundromat, had no bathroom facilities, or space for O’Keeffe tour goers to wait. “That’s all that was needed in those days,” he says, “and folks used to gather at the Inn.” But the increasing number of visitors seeking an enhanced experience of O’Keeffe’s life and art—in the very place she lived and created—soon made it obvious to Noble that the existing facility was not enough. Leaders at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum knew it, too. “We had been looking at an alternative space to upgrade the center for about five years,” says Museum Director Robert A. Kret. “Colin offered us five acres to build on, south of the Abiquiu Inn. We pursued that, but the price of construction was too high. The project got shelved.” In March 2017, Noble made a new offer. “Colin calmly asked me how much space we were looking for,” says Kret. “I told him, and he said, ‘What if I build it for you?’” Noble proposed that the Welcome Center would be planned and designed by Noble Hospitality’s architecture and décor team, in collaboration with O’Keeffe Museum staff and trustees. While Noble would own the property, O’Keeffe Museum staff would oversee daily operations. Ultimately, Noble and the Museum would enter into a 20-year lease. “Locking in 20 years was very significant, and the fact that Colin just turned his architect over to us was extraordinary,” Kret says. “I couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out. The space allows us to provide better amenities for our visitors, and carries a lot of possibilities to have a positive impact on tourism in Rio Arriba County. I can’t thank Colin enough for his generosity.” In a conversation over lunch at the Abiquiu Inn, Noble’s easy manner reveals the quiet confidence of an experienced businessman whose enterprising instincts made him one of the most successful hoteliers in his native Northern Ireland. But in 1991, Noble left Belfast for America. “That was in the time of the Troubles,” he says, referring to the factional violence that rocked the residents of Northern Ireland over three decades. “Hotels were not necessarily the business to be in.” He landed in the so-called “Little Apple” of Manhattan, Kansas, a thriving business and cultural community. There he founded Noble Hospitality Inc., translating his background in
the independent hotel industry to major American hotel franchises, including Holiday Inn, Hilton, Marriott, and Ramada. He has since managed more than 135 hotels in 19 states. “I wish I’d come 100 years before I did,” he says. “I just love America.” That love includes a keen and knowledgeable enthusiasm for Irish-American history. Noble is a font of facts about leading figures of Irish descent, many from 19th-century Northern Ireland, who are integral to contemporary American life. Such names as Sam Houston, the military general who led Texas to its independence from Mexico. Or Andrew McNally, the New York printer who in 1868 cofounded Rand McNally & Co., one of the largest mapmakers in American history. Or Edmund McIlhenny, the farmer who invented the secret recipe for Louisiana’s original Tabasco Sauce. “When you are new in a country, you’ve got to find something to talk about to be part of the conversation,” he says. “These people were Americans, but they were all from this little island called Ireland.” Although Georgia O’Keeffe’s father was of Irish descent, Noble had no knowledge of the iconic artist when he came looking for a new hotel property in Abiquiú in 2002. The property he sought was unavailable, but another place down the road reminded him of the small inns he’d once owned in Ireland. “I always enjoyed having small places where I could do anything I wanted,” he says. “This one had atmosphere, culture, blue skies. As soon as I began learning about O’Keeffe and her connection here, the pieces came together. I saw immediately that our customers in many ways are being generated by O’Keeffe.” Strengthening the Inn’s partnership with the Museum through the Welcome Center was a natural for Noble. “The Museum is building this to boost their business here, and it suits the growth of my business well,” he says. For both Noble and Kret, developing the Center was also a natural way to build stronger partnerships with the Abiquiú community. Local residents were invited to be part of the planning process, to determine how the new space might suit their needs. Their input resulted in the creation of the Center’s classroom, for use by community groups and nonprofits. “The
idea is to bring many people in from the community,” says Noble, “to demonstrate that these great facilities are here because we want locals to use them, too.” The conversations generated through community meetings resulted in ideas for a host of other collaborations, from a new O’Keeffe scholarship initiative in partnership with the Abiquiú Land Grant board, to a drive to build a sheriff’s substation in the village. “This is the beginning of a more active conversation with the community to engage groups about what else we might do together,” Kret says. Noble, who now spends about six weeks a year in Abiquiú, believes the Welcome Center is a solid step toward a more promising future for the local, business, and cultural constituencies of the village and the Rio Chama Valley beyond. “You couldn’t not be excited by all the stuff that’s happening here,” he says. “The days aren’t long enough to do all that can be done to introduce the world to Abiquiú and O’Keeffe.”
Thanks to the Abiquiu Inn, Museum members get 15% off a multi-night stay in 2018! The discount will be applied at check-in: on arrival at the Inn, present your membership card at the front desk. Based on availability.
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COLLABORATION CREATES SCHOLARSHIP FOR ABIQUIÚ LAND GRANT STUDENTS The Abiquiú Land Grant Board, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation have collaborated to create the Abiquiú Land Grant–Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Scholarship. The Scholarship will support students who are descendants of an Abiquiú Land Grant family. The inaugural awards will be a part of the LANL Foundation’s existing Regional College/Returning Student (RCRS) Scholarship program of one-year educational awards of $1,500 each. “Georgia O’Keeffe lived in Abiquiú for nearly 40 years,” says Robert A. Kret, Director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. “She had a long legacy of supporting the community while she was alive, and scholarship donors want to continue her philanthropy with this fund.” The RCRS scholarships are for nontraditional students who are returning to formal education after taking a hiatus for other pursuits. Following such a gap in their schooling, eligible students must plan to enroll in a two-year degree or certificate program, or presently be in such a program. They must also be descendants of an Abiquiú Land Grant family, and have earned a high school diploma or GED. The inaugural awardees will receive notification of their awards in July. Applications for a second round of new applicants will open in October. Additionally, descendants of Abiquiú Land Grant families who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees will be able to apply in the fall for the Abiquiú Land Grant–Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Scholarship through the LANL Foundation’s General 4-Year Undergraduate Scholarships program. For more information, please visit the LANL Foundation’s website at www. lanlfoundation.org/scholarships. 8
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WELCOME CENTER OPENING On Saturday, May 19, the Museum welcomed its Abiquiú neighbors and Museum members to a festive afternoon of music, art activities, food, and participation by community partners to open the new O’Keeffe Welcome Center on the grounds of the Abiquiu Inn. 1. Overhead view of the festivities, including a visit by the Abiquiú Volunteer Fire Department 2. David Archuleta, president of the Abiquiú Land Grant Board, addresses the crowd 3. Rio Arriba County Sheriff James D. Lujan addresses the crowd 4. Visitors get a first glimpse of the Welcome Center interior 5. An interactive display inside the Welcome Center attracts a visitor 6. Learning about the Home and Studio garden 7. The littlest fireman 8. Rio Arriba County sheriff deputies stopped by to do some art activities 9. A community mural art project gets audience participation 10. Food by the Abiquiu Inn, Bode’s, and Flourchild’s kept the lines long 11. La Familia Unida provided music with a northern New Mexico flair 12. Pita Lopez chats with some Abiquiú neighbors
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Creative Activity “I wish people were all trees and then I think I could enjoy them.” —GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
DRAWING TREES 1. Focus on the basic shape of a tree. Using a pencil, draw the general shape. 2. Add in more of the tree’s structure. Taper the smaller branches growing out of the tree’s main trunk. Add darker strokes to some of the branches and trunk. 3. If your tree has leaves, begin shading the leaves, using short strokes to create texture. Make some areas darker, to create texture and depth. If your drawing also includes shrubs, use the same techniques to depict them. 4. If you like, add some grass around the base of your tree. 5. You can name your tree after yourself or a friend. Stand back and admire your creation! Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerald’s Tree I, 1937. Oil on canvas, 40 x 301⁄8 in. Gift of The Burnett Foundation. Copyright Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
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P E O P L E AT T H E O ’ K E E F F E
In 1983, Meriom and Howard Kastner took several weeks to travel from Seattle, Washington, through California and across the desert Southwest, looking for a place to retire. By the time they got to Albuquerque they were about to give up, but decided to make one last stop—in Santa Fe. Arriving at night, they woke to a vivid blue sky and clean, dry desert air, and decided on the spot that this was the place. They moved to Santa Fe permanently in January 1984 and quickly entrenched themselves in the cultural life of the city, helping to found docent programs at the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Palace of the Governors. When the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum opened, in 1997, Meriom was in the very first training class for docents. Her favorite thing about being a docent was “to give knowledge to others, to provide visitors with an ability to enjoy what they were looking at and help them understand it.” On July 10, Meriom will celebrate her 100th birthday. Asked for advice about how to live life, she replied, “All I can say is, enjoy every minute, because if you don’t, it’s gone. Even if you’ve said yes instead of no, or no instead of yes, enjoy it. It’s all you’ve got.” The Museum family extends its warmest congratulations and birthday wishes to this spirited member of our community. BELOW: Docents Meriom Kastner and Jerry Rightman.
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
NEW FACES MEET THE NEW CURATOR The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is pleased to welcome Ariel Plotek, PhD, as its new Curator of Fine Art. Plotek’s studies and career have been foto.com international in scope. He completed his© Insight BA honors at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, then went on to earn an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has held a variety of museum and teaching positions at institutions that include the University of San Diego, Clemson University, New York University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Most recently, Plotek was Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the San Diego Museum of Art, where he was responsible for numerous exhibitions and a collection of artworks that ranged from the 19th through the 21st centuries.
THE MUSEUM WELCOMES TWO INCOMING FELLOWS IN 2018 Jenn Shapland Academic Fellowship: “Interiors: Keeping House in Northern New Mexico” Jenn Shapland is an Adjunct Instructor in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An independent writer of creative nonfiction, she has won numerous prizes and awards for her essays and writing. Shapland will be at the Museum working on her project, “Interiors: Keeping House in Northern New Mexico,” in which she will examine women-founded artists’ colonies of women artists, writers, and cultural producers in mid-20th-century northern New Mexico, through the homes and communities they built and occupied together here.
Jessica L. Horton Compelling Reciprocity: Native Arts and Earth Diplomacies, 1953–1973 Jessica L. Horton, an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, is a historian of modern and contemporary art specializing in Native American art, politics, and ecology. Horton will be at the O’Keeffe researching her next book, Compelling Reciprocity: Native Arts and Earth Diplomacies, 1953–1973. She’ll also be consulting the resources at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and will interview individuals in the community. Horton is exploring how, during the Cold War, traveling diplomatic exhibitions of Native American arts affected people around the world, including their relationship to modernism.
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POWER HOUSE Upcoming Members’ Event Finds Creative Connections to O’Keeffe’s Home How do the homes artists make connect with creativity outside of the house? This question is explored by Jenn Shapland, one of the Museum’s 2018 academic fellows. An author and creative-writing instructor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Shapland this summer investigates domestic spaces and how they shaped women’s artistic communities in Santa Fe. She calls the project “Interiors: Keeping House in Northern New Mexico.” Shapland will present an exclusive program at the Abiquiú Home and Studio for upper-level ($1,000 and above) Museum members. She will discuss the results of her research, while taking a closer look at the story of O’Keeffe’s visionary house. This will be a unique chance to meet one-on-one with Shapland, and will provide an intimate experience with O’Keeffe’s iconic home = Thursday, August 30, 5–7 PM, starting at the Welcome Center in Abiquiú = Space is limited. Reserve with Debra Heslin, 505.946.1037 or dheslin@gokm.org.
CANDELARIA LOPEZ The Museum family mourns the loss of Candelaria Lopez, who passed away March 3 at the age of 92. Candelaria was part of three generations of the Lopez family who worked for Georgia O’Keeffe at her home in Abiquiú. She was O’Keeffe’s housekeeper and cook for more than a dozen years, and was the daughter of Estiban Suazo, gardener for O’Keeffe from the mid-1950s until his death, in 1980. She was also mother to Agapita (Pita), Belarmino (Mino), and Margarito (Maggie) Lopez, all of whom worked for the artist and continue to work for the Museum at the Abiquiú Home and Studio today. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum extends its
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condolences to the Lopez family, and thanks them for their years of dedicated service to Georgia O’Keeffe and the Museum.
Candelaria Lopez, left, with her father, Estiban Suazo. © Malcolm Varen.
MEMORIES OF MISS O’KEEFFE
Sunday, August 12, 3–5 PM Art & Leadership Exhibition
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of the Art & Leadership Program, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s flagship educational endeavor, specifically designed for Santa Fe middle-school students. Participants engage in artistic projects, workshops with creative professionals, field trips to cultural sites, and peer discussions. In addition to developing students’ artistic inclinations, the program encourages personal growth through positive role models, leadership opportunities, empathy, and open communication. Art & Leadership guides students to become more creative, confident, and adaptable, and to maintain lifelong skills that are applicable across disciplines. View artwork created by the youth in the program while enjoying food and music = Museum Education Annex, 123 Grant Avenue = Free.
The documentary about the Lopez family, who worked for Georgia O’Keeffe for three generations, is now available on DVD. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals, Skinwalkers), Memories of Miss O’Keeffe is the story of the bonds that shape a family, and shares the humanity behind an icon, the rare beauty of the American West, and connections that withstand the passage of time.
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Wednesdays, 10 AM–4 PM July 18 and 25; August 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29; September 12 Wednesdays with O’Keeffe = In partnership with Ghost Ranch Education and Retreat Center, the Wednesdays with O’Keeffe series showcases the best of the northern New Mexico O’Keeffe loved. Begin at the Welcome Center at the Abiquiú Inn, to check in for the O’Keeffe Abiquiú Home and Studio Tour. Then board a bus for a guided tour on the way to Ghost Ranch—learn about the history of the area, and its geology, flora, and fauna. Enjoy a buffet-style lunch in the Ghost Ranch Dining Hall, or sit outside under ancient cottonwoods. Reboard the bus for the Ghost Ranch Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Tour, and see with your own eyes the scenes and sites of O’Keeffe’s paintings, interwoven with stories of her 50 years at Ghost Ranch = $119. Register at ghostranch.org/visit/tours-trail-rides/ wednesdays-with-okeeffe/. Reservations should be made by 5 PM the day before the tour.
Available in the Museum Store or at okeeffemuseum.org/store. $8; member price, $6.80.
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“. . . O’Keeffe is . . . very much with me as I create my art quilts. When I finally decided to create a living trust several years ago, it was an easy decision to leave a goodly part of my estate to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. I have to admit that I was very excited when I realized that I could actually do this. O’Keeffe has been a positive influence in my life in many ways and for many, many years. She has been like a fantastic encouraging sister to me, and it makes me very happy that I can contribute to her continuing legacy by way of my estate.” —JUDY DILLIN, PEDERNAL SOCIETY MEMBER, VENTURA, CALIFORNIA
Judy Dillin with Variations on a Theme: O’Keeffe’s Pedernal, May 2018. Original design by Judy Dillin. Composed of cotton fabric and pieced, appliquéd, and quilted by machine by the artist. 253/4 x 35 in. Photo by Thomas Moon.
THE PEDERNAL SOCIETY We invite you to join Judy as a member of the Pedernal Society, comprising donors who have made the special commitment to name the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in their will, trust, retirement plan, life insurance policy, or financial accounts. For more information, or if you’ve already named the O’Keeffe Museum in your estate plans, please contact Jennifer Pedneau, Institutional Giving Manager, at 505.946.1035 or jpedneau@okeeffemuseum.org.
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MEMBERSHIP
MEMBERS Our members generously support all areas of the Museum’s endeavors, from cutting-edge research and conservation to engaging community programs and educational initiatives. The Museum would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals and organizations for their continued support.
Elizabeth Goldberg Cody Hartley and Santiago Rodriguez Kathleen and Gerald Petitt Carol Prins and John Hart Paul and June Schorr III James Seitz Jr.
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Lynn Johnson and
Eugene and Jean Stark Jr.
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Jackie Lovelace Johnson
Polly Wotherspoon
William and Lillias Johnston Susie and John Adams
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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS GEORGIA O’KEEFFE? Make O’Keeffe part of your summer travels with one—or all—of these exhibitions featuring works from the Museum’s collection. SATURDAY, MAY 19–SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 New York Botanical Garden Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai‘i In 1939, Georgia O’Keeffe spent nine weeks in Hawai‘i, on commission from the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now the Dole Food Company). Though she made no paintings of the company’s namesake fruit, she created singular evocations of the islands’ landscape and flora. This summer, more than 20 of O’Keeffe’s Hawaiian works will be on public view in the lush conservatory and gallery of New York City’s renowned Botanical Garden. Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of Hawai‘i is the first time these works have been shown together since their debut, in 1940. This exhibition moves to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, opening in spring 2019.
Georgia O’Keeffe—Visions of Hawai‘i published in association with The New York Botanical Garden. With contributions by Brian M. Boom, DeSoto Brown, Otto Degener and Isa Degener, Samuel M. ‘Ohukani‘ohi‘a Gon III, and Alicia Inez Guzmán. $34.95; member $29.71.
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SATURDAY, MAY 26–MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe & Contemporary Art Georgia O’Keeffe provides the gravitational pull for a constellation of rising artists in The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe & Contemporary Art. This must-see exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, in Bentonville, Arkansas, presents O’Keeffe in a fresh context by thematically juxtaposing more than 30 of her paintings with works by 20 contemporary American artists.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2O18– SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2O19 Cleveland Museum of Art Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern The blockbuster exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art pairs O’Keeffe’s artwork and clothing with photographs of the artist to reveal her unified modernist aesthetic.
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, published by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. By Chad Allgood, Lauren Haynes, Anna Chave, and Alicia Inez Guzman. $55; member $46.75.
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern by Wanda M. Corn, published by the Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books. $39.95; member $33.96.
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Artist and teacher Patrick Nagatani (1945 – 2017), a leading figure in the “directorial photography” style, often constructed complex tableaux and detailed models for the camera to bring attention to truths that are sometimes hidden in plain sight.
on the plaza in santa fe | 505-476-5072 | nmartmuseum.org | Aspects of this exhibition and related programs are presented in coordination with the New Mexico History Museum’s exhibition Atomic Histories and the Santa Fe Opera’s performance of Doctor Atomic. Pictured: Patrick Nagatani, Trinitite Ground Zero, Trinity Site, New Mexico (from the series Nuclear Enchantment), 1988–89, silver-dye bleach print (Cibachrome), 20 × 24 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of anonymous donor, 1997 (1997.61.1). Photo by Cameron Gay © Patrick Nagatani Estate.
“I have never had a more beautiful walk.” – GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
Wool Gaucho Hat $60 Survival Kit $17 Dual Magnifier $12.50 Keeping a Nature Journal $18.95 Luci Inflatable Color-Changing Light $24.95 Wildsam Desert Southwest Field Guide $18 Campfire Games $24 Log Pillow $20 Wilderness First-Aid Kit $7 “I have never had a more beautiful walk” –Georgia O’Keeffe Walking Stick $55 Hello Nature Activity Cards $12.99 O’Keeffe Museum Logo Hot/Cold S’well Bottle $38
Discover O Keeffe On your New Mexico adventure, hike through Georgia O’Keeffe’s beloved landscapes, explore the botany of the Southwest, and play games by the campfire under the stars. For inspiration and information, visit the Welcome Center in Abiquiú.
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