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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Robin McKinney Martin (b. 1954) is the owner of the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Taos News. Both papers were formerly owned by her father Robert M. McKinney (1910–2001). Her mother Louise Trigg, a prominent figure in the Santa Fe cultural community, was a friend of O'Keeffe and is credited with encouraging O'Keeffe to consent to using her painting for a series of Chamber Music Festival posters. Martin was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Margaret (Peg) Pack McKinley (b. 1927) is the daughter of Eleanor (Brownie) Hibben (1898–1992) and Arthur Newton Pack (1893–1975). In 1933 Pack established a guest ranch and nature preserve known as Ghost Ranch. O'Keeffe stayed in the Pack's house during her trips to New Mexico in the early 1930s and eventually purchased the house and six acres from Pack in 1940. Pack and his family were life-long friends of O'Keeffe. McKinley was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Nancy Hopkins Reily in Santa Fe.

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Nancy Hopkins Reily in Santa Fe.

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Olga Hirshhorn in Vineyard Haven, MA.

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Olga Hirshhorn in Vineyard Haven, MA.

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Ellen Bradbury Reid (b. 1940) is an art historian and Mabel Dodge Luhan scholar. She met O'Keeffe while director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe and convinced O'Keeffe to donate several paintings to the museum. Reid was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Nancy Hopkins Reily (b. 1934) is a writer and photographer. She met O'Keeffe as a child when her family started spending summers in Abiquiu during the 1940s. Her aunt Helen Louise Morten (1900-1984) was a friend of O'Keeffe. Reily has published two books about O'Keeffe. Reily was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Louis Rosen (1918-2009) was a physicist at Los Alamos Laboratories. He and his wife Mary (Terry) Rosen (1918-2004), an artist in her own right, became friends with O'Keeffe after being introduced by Elizabeth Allred, O'Keeffe's neighbor. Rosen was interviewed by Sarah Burt.