Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Snapshot
American Modernist painter and sculptor Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is credited with saying "To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage." O'Keeffe, a Wisconsin native, made the desert highlands near Abiquiu, New Mexico her adopted home, and is best known for her sensual paintings of flowers and the desert landscape. Carrying on that artistic legacy, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which opened in 1997, houses the largest collection of O'Keeffe's works in the world. The collection contains more nearly 3,000 works, including more than 1,000 of her paintings, drawings, and sculptures; the museum is also home to a research center dedicated to the study of the American Modernist movement.