I have wanted to visit Abiquiu, Northern New Mexico for many years to see where Georgia O'Keeffe did a lot of her paintings and lived most of her life. What a place magical the clouds, the mountains, the flowers, the river, the lake and the people I can see why she liked it here.
Here's a little bit about her:
Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Wisconsin on November 15th 1887. She studied art as a child and received formal training and taught art intermittently from 1905 to 1916. Her career was launched in 1916, when internationally known photographer Alfred Stieglitz exhibited some of her innovative charcoal abstractions in a group show at 291, his famous avant-garde gallery in New York. He organized O'Keeffe soul exhibition there in 1917 and a year later made it possible for her to move to New York from Texas, where she had taught since 1916. They were married in 1924. From 1923 until his death, in 1946 Stieglitz exhibited O'Keeffe's work annually, and by the end of the 1920s O'Keeffe had become known as one of America's most important and successful modern artists. In 1929 she began spending summers painting in New Mexico, and made it her permanent home in 1949. Her work and career flourished in the state, where she died in 1986.
