Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 2001, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum received, as a bequest from the Estate of Maria Chabot, hundreds of letters she received from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz between 1941 and O'Keeffe's death in 1986. Most of the letters date from the 1940s and describe the experiences Chabot and O'Keeffe shared during the years Chabot lived with O'Keeffe at the artist's Ghost Ranch house (1941-1944) and oversaw the renovation of the ruined adobe hacienda that O'Keeffe purchased in 1945 in the...

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Maria Chabot and an unidentified man standing with a tractor, surrounded by trees. Handwritten on verso: "Spring-When we got the new tractor."

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Maria Chabot loading aspen onto a truck. Handwritten on verso: "This is what made the ceiling in that building that's too big."

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Photograph of Maria Chabot and an unidentified individual in a forested area with a pile of aspen trees on the ground and several aspens in the bed of a truck. Handwritten on verso: "Cutting aspen in March '47."

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 2001, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum received, as a bequest from the Estate of Maria Chabot, hundreds of letters she received from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz between 1941 and O'Keeffe's death in 1986. Most of the letters date from the 1940s and describe the experiences Chabot and O'Keeffe shared during the years Chabot lived with O'Keeffe at the artist's Ghost Ranch house (1941-1944) and oversaw the renovation of the ruined adobe hacienda that O'Keeffe purchased in 1945 in the...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 2001, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum received, as a bequest from the Estate of Maria Chabot, hundreds of letters she received from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz between 1941 and O'Keeffe's death in 1986. Most of the letters date from the 1940s and describe the experiences Chabot and O'Keeffe shared during the years Chabot lived with O'Keeffe at the artist's Ghost Ranch house (1941-1944) and oversaw the renovation of the ruined adobe hacienda that O'Keeffe purchased in 1945 in the...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 2001, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum received, as a bequest from the Estate of Maria Chabot, hundreds of letters she received from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz between 1941 and O'Keeffe's death in 1986. Most of the letters date from the 1940s and describe the experiences Chabot and O'Keeffe shared during the years Chabot lived with O'Keeffe at the artist's Ghost Ranch house (1941-1944) and oversaw the renovation of the ruined adobe hacienda that O'Keeffe purchased in 1945 in the...

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Photograph of Media Luna (Half Moon) by Mym Tuma. Mym Tuma, also known as Marilynn Thuma, corresponded with Georgia O'Keeffe from 1964 to 1973. This photograph, and fourteen others, were probably enclosed in a letter from Marilynn Thuma dated September 4, 1970.

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Photograph of Media Luna (Half Moon) by Mym Tuma. Mym Tuma, also known as Marilynn Thuma, corresponded with Georgia O'Keeffe from 1964 to 1973. This photograph, and fourteen others, were probably enclosed in a letter from Marilynn Thuma dated September 4, 1970.

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Photograph of Mym Tuma with her works. Mym Tuma, also known as Marilynn Thuma, corresponded with Georgia O'Keeffe from 1964 to 1973. This photograph, and fourteen others, were probably enclosed in a letter from Marilynn Thuma dated September 4, 1970. Handwritten on verso: "These Forms are: Mariposa (Butterfly) 35' x 45' Almeja (clam) 28' x 36' Cuerno (horn) Only a part of Alcatraz the white lily can be seen on the table 48' x 36' All are in an unfinished state here."