The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is dedicated to the art of Georgia O’Keeffe and to the study of American Modernism (1890–present). It is housed in a spacious Pueblo Revival-style building two blocks from the historic Santa Fe Plaza. Since it opened in July 1997, the Museum has quickly become New Mexico’s most popular art museum; it welcomed its one millionth visitor in 2001.

One of the most important artists of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.” She was a leading member of one of the avant-garde art movements that blossomed in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. O’Keeffe’s images—often instantly recognizable as hers—include large-scale flowers, New York cityscapes, animal bones, and the high deserts and dramatic cliffs of her beloved New Mexico.

The Museum’s permanent collection consists of 2990 works. The Museum holds 1148 O’Keeffe paintings, drawings, and sculpture, including promised gifts and extended loans, and has the largest collection of O'Keeffe’s work in the world. Throughout the year, visitors can see a changing selection of at least 50 of these works. In addition, the Museum presents special exhibitions that are either devoted entirely to O’Keeffe’s work or that combine examples of her art with works by related American modernist artists, such as Arthur Dove, Helen Frankenthaler, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and others.

Acquisitions Through 2000
Emily Fisher Landau Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Acquisitions Since 2001
Museum Research Center receives Maria Chabot gift

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June 2005 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation to Transfer Assets to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

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