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The collection consists of interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe's surviving relatives, colleagues, friends, and employees as well as supporting project documentation. The bulk of the materials date from 2000 to 2003 and include audiocassette recordings, typed transcripts, photographs, and research and project records.

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Rudd Brown (left) and June Wayne toasting, in Pasadena, CA.

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Rudd Brown (left) and June Wayne toasting, in Pasadena, CA.

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Rudd Brown (left) and June Wayne toasting, in Pasadena, CA.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 1999, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum began working together on the Georgia O'Keeffe Oral History Project with the goal of recording and transcribing interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe's surviving relatives, colleagues, friends, and employees. The co-directors of the project, Agapita Judy Lopez (Director, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation) and Barbara Buhler Lynes (Curator and Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Research Center, Georgia O'Keeffe...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 1999, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum began working together on the Georgia O'Keeffe Oral History Project with the goal of recording and transcribing interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe's surviving relatives, colleagues, friends, and employees. The co-directors of the project, Agapita Judy Lopez (Director, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation) and Barbara Buhler Lynes (Curator and Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Research Center, Georgia O'Keeffe...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 1999, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum began working together on the Georgia O'Keeffe Oral History Project with the goal of recording and transcribing interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe's surviving relatives, colleagues, friends, and employees. The co-directors of the project, Agapita Judy Lopez (Director, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation) and Barbara Buhler Lynes (Curator and Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Research Center, Georgia O'Keeffe...

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June Wayne (1918-2011) was a painter, lithographer, and designer. She was founder and director of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles and later organized the Tamarind Institute at the University of New Mexico. Wayne met O'Keeffe in 1963 when she invited O'Keeffe to become a Tamarind fellow. The two remained friends over the course of O'Keeffe's later years. Wayne was interviewed by Sarah Burt.