Georgia O'Keeffe. Ram's Horns I, ca. 1949. Charcoal on paper, 18 5/8 x 24 7/8 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.207]

Intertwined ram's horns fill the paper. The central horn weaves through the circular horn on the right and then curves back towards the left.

Did you know? There are approximately 700 drawings by O’Keeffe in the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s collection. O'Keeffe was fascinated by the intricate details, shapes, and textures of sun-bleached bones, which she sketched several times.

🔎 Explore more of O’Keeffe’s sketches at access-ok.gokm.org

Watercolor Cherry Blossoms with blue/green leaves on sky blue background. The flowers are positioned slightly left and branches out to the right top on paper in a landscape orientation.

This cherry blossom painting is among Georgia O’Keeffe’s earliest watercolor works, created while she was a student at Chatham Episcopal Institute.

🌸 See ‘Untitled (Cherry Blossoms), 1903’ on view in Gallery 1.

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Georgia O'Keeffe. Anything, 1916. Oil on board, 20 x 15 3/4 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.29]

Three conical green trees rise up from the base of the work and extend into the central and left portions of the piece. In the center of the image, a rounded tree with a yellowish center emerges above the green trees. Behind the central red tree and to the right, a narrower, rounded red tree can also be seen. The sky, visible in the upper corners of the work, are dark blue.

Before 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe had worked mostly in charcoal and watercolor. Inspired by the avant-garde artworks that she saw while at Teachers College in New York, however, O’Keeffe embraced a whole new visual world of vibrant oil paints.

See “Anything, 1916” on view in Gallery 1.

Horizontal graphite drawing on paper of landscape. Mesa top fills to the edges of the top of the page.

Georgia O’Keeffe found inspiration in the foothills, cliffs, and mountains near her home in Abiquiú, New Mexico. Although small in scale, this long horizontal canvas conveys a striking sense of the panoramic views around her home.

Photograph from behind of an adult holding a child’s hand as they walk through the Museum galleries. In the background, other visitors and white gallery walls with paintings are visible.

Kick off your February at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum! Visit the Museum or join us during these upcoming events:

🖼️ First Friday | Frid., February 6, 5:00–7:00 PM

🎨 Family Day | Sun., February 8, 10:30 AM–2:30 PM

🔎 Check out all upcoming events at gokm.org

What’s on your 2026 mood board? If you’re looking for inspiration, stop by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum!

During your visit, see the Museum’s newest exhibition “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country, ” which explores the complexities of O’Keeffe’s presence in Northern New Mexico.

Black and white photograph of an adobe wall with a wooden ladder leaning against it and casting a sharp shadow on the wall. Snow covers the wall, the ladder, and the ground below. A dark path of dirt has been dusted through the snow.

❄️ Our first winter snowfall brings us back to 1959, when Georgia O’Keeffe photographed snow on a ladder leaning against her studio wall.

Photograph of a table on which is placed prints and illustrations of a flat-topped mountain.

Photograph of a flat-topped mountain in the background and to the left a building on which a ladder is leaning. In the foreground is the quote "If we keep on just telling the history of Georgia O'Keeffe, then we're not telling the full history..." by Bess Murphy, Luce Curator of Art and Social Practice.

Portrait of two people standing shoulder to shoulder. On the left, a person stands with short hair and round earrings, wearing a black wrap dress. On the right is a person with a black t-shirt and grey long hair pulled back.

Photograph of a person's hands as they lean on a table. The table is covered in prints and illustrations of a flat-topped mountain.

Coming November 7 to the O'Keeffe Museum: “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country”

How does a Museum that bears Georgia O’Keeffe’s name shed light on the long-excluded voices and stories of a shared place? Read more: hluce.org/this-is-not-...

Silkscreen print of a desert horizon with a large cloud rising in the sky above. The entire piece is composed in shades of bright orange and fluorescent golden red. 'Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country' is at the top and the O'Keeffe Museum logo is at the bottom along with 'Opening November 7.'

Opening November 7— “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country”

The works of twelve artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos of Northern New Mexico come into dialogue with Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and personal objects.

Learn more: www.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Small painting of red triangle of a barn above a sea of yellow wheat, in a blue sky filled with white clouds.

In 1928, Georgia O’Keeffe returned to her home state of Wisconsin for a few months. During this trip, the artist revisited the barns she had known in her youth.

O’Keeffe described the barns as "wonderful—not what is ordinarily called picturesque—They just seem alive all the way through."

Two people wearing dark jackets, one in profile, stand in front of a painting of soft clay hills of grey, black, and pink. Through the center a large stripe of black makes a V shape though the grey. Blended areas of pink on the grey are on either side of this V in the bottom half of the canvas.

The perfect way to start the weekend: You + the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

🎟️ Tickets: https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

Vertical canvas with center stylized grey tree - limbs and trunk spreading out and upwards into reddish, grey and some greenish blended color of arching planes.

During the early 1920s, O'Keeffe spent many autumn months in Lake George, New York, painting the vibrant trees of the Adirondack mountains. This maple tree was a particularly favorite subject of O’Keeffe’s.

Photograph of a wall with a title "Making a Life" on a brown semi-circle with stitch-like designs. The wall opens up onto a room where a large painting of Mount Fuji in pink and white hangs under a row of skylights.

FINAL WEEKS–"Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life"

Don't miss your last chance to see the exhibition before it closes on October 19! Get tickets at gokm.org or at the link in our bio.

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📸 Museum Galleries © Georgia O'Keeffe

A tree with silver limbs extends across the entire vertical canvas. The painting is filled with soft golden pigment and yellow paint evoking autumnal foliage.

Happy first day of fall! Kick off the season with this painting of a golden Birch tree. Soon, all the trees begin to resemble Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.

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Georgia O'Keeffe. Autumn Trees – The White Birch, 1924. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Small pieces of paper painted with various shades of yellow and red paint. O’Keeffe has written notes on the upper portion of the color cards.

Beginning in the 1920s, Georgia O’Keeffe made small color cards as visual references when selecting her paints. Each card was a different shade, and many were inscribed with notes about the pigments.

See more cards in our Collections Online: collections.okeeffemuseum.org/search/?s=co...

Have you seen our focused exhibition, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life,’ yet?

There are only a few weeks left to view the exhibition before it closes on October 19th. Don’t miss your chance to explore the many ways in which O'Keeffe was a maker.

🎟️ Tickets at gokm.org

Georgia O'Keeffe. Untitled (Abstraction Blue Curve and Circles), 1970s. Watercolor on paper, 30 1/2 x 22 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.530]

A blue curved stroke, in the shape of a "?" with two blue circles beneath the curved stroke. Inside the curve are two blue circles. On top of the curve, are six blue dots. The immediate circle beneath the curve has four blue dots to its left and the subsequent circle has five blue dots to its right.

What does this painting remind you of?

In the 1970s, Georgia O’Keeffe found herself drawn back to spirals. This watercolor echoes the forms seen in her early abstract drawings, likely referencing the shape of her violin head.

Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe, The Black Place, 1944. gelatin silver print. Maria Chabot Archive. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Did you know Georgia O'Keeffe had cats?

In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz from 1944, O’Keeffe wrote, “We also got the cat—she is a very beautiful cat—dainty and beautiful—quite a dark Siamese—So now we have the cat.”

Two large swirling white flowers, one atop the other. The interior of the bottom flower is visible, yet the top flower is tilted upward hiding it's center. The two flowers fill the majority of the canvas, with a sliver of blue - perhaps an ocean horizon line along the top.

In 1939, O’Keeffe traveled to Hawai’i after accepting a commission to paint pineapple plants for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later Dole).

This trip proved immensely inspiring for O’Keeffe, who returned home with numerous paintings, including this one of a belladonna.

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Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe, Breakfast, The Black Place, 1944. contemporary photographic print, 5 x 7. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [RC.2001.2.97e]

Georgia O’Keeffe often took "motor outings," as she called them, packing her gear in her Ford and camping for several days.

In this photograph, O’Keeffe eats breakfast in the Bisti De-Na-Zin wilderness in the Navajo Nation, about 150 miles away from her home in Ghost Ranch.

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Georgia O’Keeffe. Lavender Hill with Green, 1952. Oil on canvas, 12 x 27 3/16 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [1997.5.10]

“All the earth colors of the painter’s palette are out there in the many miles of bad lands [sic]. The light Napes yellow through the ochres—orange and red and purple earth—even soft earth greens.” — Georgia O’Keeffe, 1939.

In her paintings of the New Mexico landscape, Georgia O’Keeffe recorded the brilliant colors of the high desert as she saw them. O’Keeffe spent hours, sometimes days, exploring the land by foot and automobile, looking for her next subject—red mountains, yellow cliffs, or purple hills.

Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait. 1929; Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 11.4 × 8.9 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) Getty Research Institute. Object Number [93.XM.25.27]