In December 1945, Georgia O’Keeffe purchased a 5,000-square-foot Spanish Colonial-era compound in Abiquiu, then in ruins, from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. With her friend Maria Chabot, O’Keeffe spent the next three years restoring the 18th-century structure. By 1949, the property was habitable and O’Keeffe moved from New York and became a full-time resident of New Mexico, alternately living at her homes in Abiquiu and at Ghost Ranch.
The Abiquiu house and surrounding views were a great source of inspiration to O’Keeffe, who produced works featuring the patio and black door, the cottonwood trees along the Chama River, the White Place, and the road to Santa Fe.
To the extent possible, the house remains as she left it in 1984,when she moved from Abiquiu to Santa Fe because of ill health, where she died two years later. The Museum maintains the Abiquiu home of Georgia O’Keeffe for public tours on a limited basis.
The Abiquiu house and surrounding views were a great source of inspiration to O’Keeffe, who produced works featuring the patio and black door, the cottonwood trees along the Chama River, the White Place, and the road to Santa Fe.
To the extent possible, the house remains as she left it in 1984,when she moved from Abiquiu to Santa Fe because of ill health, where she died two years later. The Museum maintains the Abiquiu home of Georgia O’Keeffe for public tours on a limited basis.