Video: Old Footage: Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico
Contributed by J. R. Ransom
Georgia O'Keeffe
This delightful video (9min 57sec) features old footage of then 92 year old painter Georgia O'Keeffe taken in and around her home at the Ghost Ranch, her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, not far from Taos.
Georgia O'Keeffe: "When I got to New Mexico, that was mine. As soon as I saw it, that was my country. I'd never seen anything like it before but it fitted to me exactly. It's something that's in the air. It's different. The sky is different. The stars are different. The wind is different. I shouldn't say too much about this, 'cause other people may get interested and I don't want them interested.
"I don't go out like that now, but I used to get right up in the morning and start out and stay out all day. I'd start off around seven and not get back until around five.
"Hot? Well, of course it was hot. It was terribly hot. And in the afternoon at about four o'clock, the bees would try to get in the car, so you'd have to close the windows. Of course it was hot.
"But a Model-A was wonderful. You could take the back seat out. I could sit on the driver's seat when I turned it around and I could work on the back seat. The windows were large enough that it was very good and I could use a great big canvas..."
