View of the Abiquiu house courtyard, chamisa, window and doorway, cracked adobe walls, row of pavement stones on the compacted dirt.

Interior view of the Abiquiu house courtyard, chamisa, window and doorway, cracked adobe walls, row of pavement stones on the compacted dirt.

Abstract view of Abiquiu house courtyard. Composition is a series of triangles, squares, and rectangles: row of pavement stones on compacted dirt leading to a doorway in black shadow with a view to the other side, triangular shadow cutting across doorway, chamisa in lower left corner.

Abstract view of Abiquiu house courtyard. Composition is a series of triangles, squares, and rectangles: row of pavement stones on compacted dirt leading to a doorway in black shadow with a view to the other side, triangular shadow cutting across doorway.

View of the courtyard at the Abiquiu house with chamisa; visible are the cracked adobe walls, lintels, vigas, and a portion of the hallway in shadow. Visible on the viewers left is a reflection in window of Georgia O'Keeffe taking the photograph.

View of the cracked adobe exterior of O'Keeffe's Abiquiu house as seen from the courtyard; visible are a grouping of chamisa, double doors, a section of the wellhead, and pavement tiles in shadow in the foreground.

Vertical composition of O'Keeffe's patio looking through an open doorway; cracked adobe wall, doorway with steps and paving stones, large graphic triangular shadow cuts across the picture plane from the upper right corner to middle bottom of the photograph; large chamisa to the left in foreground, a smaller chamisa can be seen at the other end of the doorway.

O'Keeffe frames her Abiquiu house as a flat plane of textured adobe; the darkened studio door is to the left, small native shrubs and a pile of bricks are in the foreground.