A painting by Rebecca Salsbury (Strand) James has been given to the Museum: Peace, 1937, reverse painting on glass, 8 x 10 inches. O’Keeffe met and became friends with James in New York in the 1920s, when James was married to photographer Paul Strand. He was among the handful of artists supported by Alfred Stieglitz, America’s leading advocate of modern art, an internationally known photographer, and O’Keeffe’s husband and agent. O’Keeffe traveled by train with James to New Mexico when she first began painting there in 1929, and the two remained lifelong friends.

This marvelous example of James’s work was given to the Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Woods of Chicago and we are extremely grateful to them for this wonderful addition to our collection. We hope that others will join their efforts to expand our collection by making gifts to the Museum of works by O’Keeffe and her contemporaries.