Burt, Sarah L., 1952-2015

Overview Clinton Adams (1918-2002) is interviewed by Sarah Burt about his encounters with Georgia O'Keeffe. Adams was professor of art and art history and dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque, from 1961 to 1976; director of Tamarind Institute, UNM, from 1970 to 1985 (successor to Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, where Adams was associate director, 1960—61); editor of The Tamarind Papers, 1974 to 1990; and retired from teaching, 1985. Adams is...

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Clinton Adams (1918-2002) is interviewed by Sarah Burt about his professional association and friendship with Georgia O'Keeffe. The second of two oral history interviews with Adams conducted by Burt.

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Perry Miller Adato is an award-winning American documentary film producer, director and writer. She produced and directed a film on Georgia O'Keeffe, produced in cooperation with WNET/Thirteen (New York City) for the series Women in Art (first broadcast on the Public Broadcasting System on November 15, 1977). Adato is interviewed by Sarah Burt about the making of the film on Georgia O'Keeffe.

Overview Elizabeth Bode Allred (b. 1928) is interviewed by Sarah Burt. Allred is the oldest daughter of Martin Bode, a German immigrant who settled in Abiquiu in the early twentieth century and eventually became owner of the town's general store. Martin Bode and O'Keeffe became good friends and O'Keeffe participated in many Bode family activities over the years. Allred primarily knew O'Keeffe through the painter's contact with her father and her brother Karl, who still lives in Abiquiu. See also a...

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Remejio Archuleta (b. 1933) was born in Abiquiu, where he lived until 1949, when he moved to Sacramento, California. During his teen years, he was one of a team of young village boys who worked on the rehabilitation of O'Keeffe's Abiquiu house under the direction of Maria Chabot. Archuleta is interviewed by Sarah Burt about his early years in Abiquiu and what it was like to work on O'Keeffe's house.

Overview Karl Bode discusses Georgia O'Keeffe's house in Abiquiu among other topics with Sarah Burt and Agapita Lopez. Bode is the former owner of Bode's General Store in Abiquiu, New Mexico, which he acquired from his father, Martin Bode, a German immigrant who moved to the village in the early twentieth century. Martin Bode bought the house later owned by Georgia O'Keeffe, which he deeded to the Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe. O'Keeffe purchased the house from the Archdiocese. Karl Bode was a...

Overview Congressional candidate in 1958 and 1960 from California, Helen (Rudd) Brown is the granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan (three-time candidate for President and Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson) and the daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, who was the first woman elected to Congress in the South, serving as Representative from Florida from 1928 to 1932. Brown moved to California in 1954 where she became active in the Democratic Party and served as a delegate to the Democratic National...

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Award-winning graphic artist and typographer, Eleanor Morris Caponigro (b. 1941) met O'Keeffe in 1977 when she was called in to collaborate with the artist on the production of the exhibition catalogue 'Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz'. Caponigro continued her association and friendship with O'Keeffe, designing several books for the artist. Caponigro is interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Katherine (Kay) Allred Christopher (b. 1954) is the granddaughter of Martin Bode and daughter of Elizabeth Bode Allred. Christopher's family spent summers and Christmas holidays in Abiquiu, and the Bodes frequently included O'Keeffe in their gatherings. Christopher knew O'Keeffe from these family events and is interviewed about them by Sarah Burt.

Overview Lucy Collier (b. 1940), a developmental psychologist, is the third child of Charles and Nina Collier and the granddaughter of John Collier, Sr., commissioner of Indian Affairs under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Charles Collier befriended O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz in the 1920s in New York City and remained friends with the artist into the 1970s. Lucy Collier knew O'Keeffe when she was a child and young adult, especially encountering the artist after Charles and Nina bought Mary Cabot...

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George Daniell (1911-2002) was a painter and photographer who specialized in portraits of actors, writers, and artists. He met Georgia O'Keeffe at An American Place in the 1940s. The two became friends and stayed in contact for a number of years. Daniell photographed O'Keeffe in 1948 on Fire Island and in New Mexico during a cross-country trip in 1952. Daniell is interviewed by Sarah Burt.

Overview Jennifer Owings Dewey is a nationally known author and illustrator of books for children and adults. Dewey is the daughter of architect Nathaniel Owings, a founding partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Emily Otis Owings Barnes, the daughter of a director of the Santa Fe Railroad in Chicago. As a young child, Dewey went to visit O'Keeffe with her mother and sisters and encountered the artist at numerous social occasions in Santa Fe. Dewey recounts the friendships between her mother...

Overview Barney A. Ebsworth (b. 1934) is the founder and director of several companies including: Windsor, Inc., formed in 1979 for the purpose of providing financing for venture capital, real estate and other investments; INTRAV, a general agency formed in 1959 for the purpose of selling travel to individuals and businesses; Royal Cruise Line, formed in 1972; and, Clipper Cruise Line, formed in 1981. Ebsworth is well known for his important collection of American modern art. Ebsworth is also a...

Overview Letitia (Tish) Evans Frank is the paternal granddaughter of Mabel Dodge Luhan and maternal granddaughter of Alice Corbin Henderson and William Penhallow Henderson. Frank was born in New York City and studied dance with Martha Graham at Bennington College, where she received her M.A. in 1951. She married Paul Frank in 1951. She taught at Juilliard School of Music from 1953 until 1957, when she and her husband moved to Santa Fe. Frank met O'Keeffe around 1960, and she accompanied O'Keeffe on...

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Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (b. 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter. Garfield's mother Francis O'Brien became friends with Georgia O'Keeffe in New York, and she and her son moved to Tucson in 1950. They visited O'Keeffe in Abiquiu several times. Garfield knew O'Keeffe best from 1949 to 1956 and then intermittently until 1971. Garfield is interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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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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Olga Hirshhorn (b. 1920) was the wife of art collector and museum founder Joseph Hirshhorn (1899-1981). The Hirshhorns were friends of O'Keeffe in the mid-1960s and purchased several works from her that are now owned by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Veronica Honaker (1915-2001) was an education specialist, and director of federal reading programs in Albuquerque from 1965 to 1980. Her husband, Clyde Honaker (1911-1993), designed the metal frames for O'Keeffe's paintings. Honaker was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Marjorie Ferguson Lambert (1908-2006), wife of well-known cowboy Jack Lambert, was the curator of archaeology at the Museum of New Mexico, the curator at the Palace of the Governors, and a research associate at the School of American Research. She knew O'Keeffe through the artist's interest in rocks and Indian artifacts and through their mutual associations with Maria Chabot and Mary Cabot Wheelright. Lambert was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Mary Grether Ligon (b. 1951) worked for two years for O'Keeffe as a night and weekend helper, performing a variety of duties. Ligon was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

Overview Agapita (Pita) Judy Lopez (b. 1954) is one of a third generation of family members in Abiquiu to have worked for O'Keeffe. She began working for O'Keeffe in 1975, first as a weekend companion and later as secretary. Upon the creation of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation in 1989, Ms. Lopez was named secretary-treasurer of the organization. In 2000, she became foundation director. Lopez is now Director of Abiquiu Historic Properties at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Lopez was interviewed by Sarah...

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Belarmino (Mino) Lopez (b. 1958) is one of a third generation of family members to work for O'Keeffe. He came to work for O'Keeffe in 1973 as a part-time helper in the garden. He eventually became a full-time personal assistant, helping with the creation of some of her later works. He was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Candelaria Suazo Lopez (b. 1925) was O'Keeffe's cook from 1971 to 1985. Her father, Estiben Suazo, was O'Keeffe's longtime gardener. Five of her children worked for O’Keeffe and subsequently for The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Lopez was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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Sue Davidson Lowe (b. 1922) is the grandniece of Alfred Stieglitz and the daughter of Elizabeth and Donald Davidson, who were close friends of O'Keeffe. She is the author of the book, Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography, and an authority on the Stieglitz family. Lowe was interviewed by Sarah Burt.

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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.