Scope and Contents
Photographs created by Myron Wood that document the homes and activities of artist Georgia O'Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1978-1981. Images include interiors and exteriors of the O'Keeffe residence in the village of Abiquiu and her summer home at Ghost Ranch and objects within them. The collection includes portraits of O'Keeffe, her acquaintances, including her gardener Estiben Suazo and his daughter and her maid, Candalaria Suazo, as well as her manager Juan Hamilton.
Dates
- 1978-1981
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Existence and Location of Copies
Most of the photographs in this collection appeared in Myron Wood and Christine Taylor Patten, O'Keeffe at Abiquiu (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995).
Conditions Governing Use
The O'Keeffe at Abiquiu Collection is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Sharon Keim on the Martin Greenblatt Foundation Book Fund in American Literature, 2007.
Arrangement
Photographs in the collection are arranged in the order the images appear in Myron Wood and Christine Taylor Patten, O'Keeffe at Abiquiu (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995), this consists of images in the book and an image from the back of the dust jacket, followed by images that did not appear in the work, which are arranged alphabetically by their title.
Extent
4.02 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Photographs created by Myron Wood that document the homes and activities of artist Georgia O'Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1978-1981. Images include interiors and exteriors of the O'Keeffe residence in the village of Abiquiu and her summer home at Ghost Ranch and objects within them. The collection includes portraits of O'Keeffe, her acquaintances, including her gardener Estiben Suazo and his daughter and her maid, Candalaria Suazo, as well as her manager Juan Hamilton.
Myron Wood (1921-1999)
Myron Wood was a photographer and Assistant Curator of Photography at The Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1951 to 1961and the photographer for Colorado College for over thirty-five years.
- Abiquiu (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu, N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Hamilton, Juan, 1945- -- Portraits
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 -- Portraits
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 -- Homes and haunts -- New Mexico -- Abiquiu
- Patten, Christine Taylor, 1940- (O'Keeffe at Abiquiu)
- Photographic prints
- Suazo, Candalaria -- Portraits
- Suazo, Estiban, 1900-1982 -- Portraits
- Wood, Myron
- Wood, Myron, 1921-1999 (O'Keeffe at Abiquiu)
- Title
- Guide to the O'Keeffe at Abiquiu.
- Author
- by Matthew D. Mason
- Date
- August 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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