Georgia O’Keeffe - Phoenix Art Museum (2024)

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How long does it take to visit the Georgia O Keeffe museum? ›

Average viewing time is 60 minutes, but visitors may stay as long as they wish. The Museum comprises nine intentionally curated galleries, with rotations from the Museum's collections, which spans O'Keeffe's entire artistic career, lasting six decades.

Alfred Stieglitz of Lake George, New York, and Miss Georgia T. O'Keeffe of Lake George, New York, were by [Joseph M. Marini] united in Holy Matrimony according to the ordinance of God and the laws of New Jersey at Cliffside Park on the Eleventh day of December 1924."

“Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” (1932) brought in $44,405,000 at Sotheby's as part of an American Art auction, and was sold on behalf of Santa Fe's Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which had two other works on offer today as well.

Expect to spend at least two hours at the museum, longer if you will be viewing a special exhibit.

City of Santa Fe parking garages can be found nearby and metered parking is also available throughout downtown Santa Fe.

The grounds are open to day visitors ($5 suggested donation) for hiking.

Frida Kahlo is a close friend of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. The two painters met in December 1931, at the opening of Rivera's big solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered, as she wished, on the land around Ghost Ranch. Following O'Keeffe's death, her family contested her will because codicils added to it in the 1980s had left most of her $65 million estate to Hamilton.

In the final decades of his life, Stieglitz devoted his time chiefly to running his gallery (Anderson Galleries, 1921–25; The Intimate Gallery, 1925–29; An American Place, 1929–46), and he made photographs less and less frequently as his health and energy declined.

In 1936, Georgia O'Keeffe finished her oil painting, Summer Days, which came to be known as one of her most famous works. The painting shows a desert below a deer skull and wildflowers, in a similar style to Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills.

Who's painting sold for $110 million the most money ever paid for an American painting? ›

For there is a savage moral truth in the $110.5m paid for Basquiat's skull at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday that has made this searing expressionist painting the most expensive American artwork of all time.

The highest price for a piece of art by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. It was sold privately for what is thought to be $110 million USD ($137 million in 2021 dollars).

Since it opened in 1959, Phoenix Art Museum has become the largest art museum in the southwestern United States providing access to visual arts and educational programs in Arizona.

Phoenix Art Museum will be located on the right, on the east side of Central. Continue north on Central Avenue and turn east (right) at the next traffic light at Coronado Road/Phoenix Art Museum Drive. Complimentary visitor parking is available to the north of the main entrance.

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There are few better places to learn about this enigmatic artist than the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. The museum is dedicated to her life and artistic legacy. Besides a great number of paintings and drawings, it also holds her library, archive, and a research centre.

I think you should allocate about 2 to 3 hours.

58 x 34 in. (147.3 x 86.4 cm.) Painted circa 1921-22.