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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collections Online

May 1, 2010 – 10:49 amNo Comment

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has introduced a collections online searchable database with pictures of over 3,000 items from the museum’s collection, and archives of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collections Online, enables the public to view, images of art and photographs in the Museum Collection and correspondence from Research Center Collections.

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Art Collection
As of December 2009, the collection includes almost 3,000 works. Foremost among those items are over 1,000 works by O’Keeffe herself, comprising the largest repository of her work available to the public in a single institution. Subjects range from the artist’s iconic flowers and bleached desert skulls to nudes, landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, and abstractions, dating from 1901 to 1984. The additional works in the collection by other artists include Arthur Dove, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Edward Hopper. Works are being added to the collection on an ongoing basis. Learn more about the collection

Georgia O’Keeffe General Correspondence
The Research Center Archives houses hundreds of letters to and from Georgia O’Keeffe. The bulk of the letters were written by Georgia O’Keeffe and addressed to Alfred Stieglitz, Maria Chabot or Claudia O’Keeffe. This is a growing collection and additional materials will be made available online as the collections are processed.

More Info: http://contentdm.okeeffemuseum.org/

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. 217 Johnson Street, Santa Fe, NM. 505.946.1000

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