Freer Gallery of Art (1923)
Organization
Dates
- Existence: est. 1923
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Report on the National Collection of Fine Arts Including the Freer Gallery of Art, 1947
Item
Identifier: 2000.6.108
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
Between 1947 and 1948, Georgia O'Keeffe shipped several boxes of books to New Mexico from her and her late husband's, Alfred Stieglitz, collections at their New York apartment and the Lake George house. This was the beginning of O'Keeffe's personal book collection in New Mexico. O'Keeffe grew her collection by purchasing and seeking out books on particular subjects; others she received as gifts from friends, admirers of her work, authors, and museums, which is documented through her habit of...
Dates:
1947