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. Operating in two very different creative worlds, Wright and O’Keeffe were nevertheless adept at applying ideas from the other’s field to their own work. 

In conjunction with the release of Through the Long Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright (Rizzoli, September 2025), this talk explores the stories that didn’t make it to the final manuscript, exploring Wright and O’Keeffe’s relationship, and the network of mutual friends who connected them in multifarious ways to a broader universe of American modern art and architecture. 

This event is virtual and free to attend. Please register in advance. Reach email contact@gokm.org or call 505-496-1000 for assistance with event registration.

Can’t make the talk? This program will be recorded and posted on our website and YouTube Channel.

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About the Speaker

Sarah Rovang is an architectural historian and writer whose forthcoming Rizzoli 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. 

Photo: Frank Lloyd Wright in Taliesin West drafting room holding drafting triangle, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 14, 1946. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York), [6006.0033.] Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.