Coming soon! Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country opens November 7 at the Museum Galleries in Santa Fe!

From October 19 to November 7, enjoy reduced admission while Galleries 7, 8, and 9 are closed for installation.

Hiding in Plain Sight: The O’Keeffe We Never Knew

  • Wednesday, July 6
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MT
  • Virtual

This event is free to attend. Please register in advance.

The notion of Georgia O’Keeffe as a loner, an artistic ascetic hiding out in the New Mexico badlands is as central to her mystique as it is untrue. In this conversation with Tim Gihring, host of The Object podcast from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, we discuss the fascinating origins of this legend and all the evidence to the contrary—from celebrity visits to FBI investigations. This conversation will be a fresh look at an enduring myth.

Tim Gihring is the writer, producer, and host of The Object, an award-winning podcast from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Based in Minneapolis, Gihring has been a journalist for more than 25 years, writing for The Associated Press, Minnesota Monthly, and other magazines and newspapers around the world. His research on O’Keeffe was featured in the April 2022 episode of The Object, “Hiding in Plain Sight: The O’Keeffe We Never Knew.”

Note that all program times are in MST.

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Featured Image: Richard Pritzlaff. Georgia O’Keeffe, 1980. color photograph, 13 15/16 x 10 15/16. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. [2006.6.846]

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The lower third of this piece is covered by a broad band of black. The upper portion of the canvas is filled with several variations of blue; however, a thin stripe of white bisects the blues horizontally.

Event Talks

Mornings with O'Keeffe | Georgia O’Keeffe and Abstract Expressionism

Online

Wednesday, November 5

9:00am

A winding road enters the scene from the base of the canvas in the center. It curves to the right before weaving off into the distance to the left. A large, light-colored mesa rises from the right side of the work, its hills sloping down towards the left. Several trees dot the landscape in the foreground, and the sky appears hazy.

Event Classes

Online Class: Clouds & Skies for Watercolor Landscapes

Online

Wednesday, November 5

11:00am

Large horizontal canvas of magnified pelvic bone in reddish orange. Emphasis is on the oval hole in the pelvis, the empty space of which fills the majority of the canvas in yellow.

Event Member Exclusives

Preview Celebration of "Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country"

217 Johnson Street. Santa Fe, NM 87501

Thursday, November 6

6:30pm