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O'Keeffe at Abiquiu

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 263
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.

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

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.

Dates
1978-1981
Extent
4.02 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Related Names
Wood, Myron
Patten, Christine Taylor, 1940-
Patten, Christine Taylor, 1940- ($t: O'Keeffe at Abiquiu)
Language of Materials
English