Mornings with O’Keeffe | Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright
Friendship and the Art of Living
In 1933, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright invited Georgia O’Keeffe to become the master artist at the newly formed Taliesin Fellowship near Spring Green, Wisconsin. “Looking for you,” he wrote, “as the great American Painter to join forces with me.” O’Keeffe was flattered by the offer but ultimately turned him down. Wright’s initial letter spurred a decades-long friendship that lasted until the architect’s death in 1959.
In conjunction with the release of Through the Long Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli, September 2025), this talk explores Wright and O’Keeffe’s relationship, and the network of mutual friends who connected them to a broader universe of American modern art and architecture.
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This talk was recorded as part of our free ‘Mornings With O’Keeffe’ lecture series on the first Wednesday of every month.
About the Speaker
Sarah Rovang is an architectural historian and writer whose book Through the Long Desert traces the intertwined journeys of Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright across the American landscape. Holding a Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture from Brown University, she has presented her work for the Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy and served as a research fellow at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Her award-winning fieldwork, supported by the Society of Architectural Historians’ H. Allen Brooks Fellowship, explores how modern design shapes our sense of place. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband and daughter and works as a program evaluator at the New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee.
