Oral histories

Collection includes materials related to the friendship between Georgia O'Keeffe and Frances O'Brien. The bulk of the items are letters from Georgia O'Keeffe to Frances O'Brien dating 1927-1973.

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 Jane Cook at his home in Santa Fe.

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.

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.

Architects Paul Hart and Joel Muller conducted the renovation of Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch house in 1999-2000. They were interviewed at the Ghost Ranch house about the restoration process by Jane Cook as they walked through the building.

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.

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.

Typed transcript of interview with Carol Sarkisian by Christine Taylor Patten, 1992.

Materials relate to Jane Cramer's research on Georgia O'Keeffe's gift and installation of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University in 1949. Included are interviews, photographs, slides, negatives, photocopies, notebooks, research notes, writings, brochures, and other miscellaneous papers.

Catherine Krueger (b. 1923) is Georgia O'Keeffe's niece. Daughter to Catherine Blanche O'Keeffe Klenert and Raymond Klenert, and mother to Raymond Krueger. Krueger was interviewed by Barbara Buhler Lynes.

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.

Saundra B. Lane is an art collector and widow of William H. Lane (1914-1995). The Lane Foundation owned many modernist paintings and photographs, which it donated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lane was interviewed by Jane Cook.

James Lebron (1928-2005) was an art handler, framer, and installer. He was involved with shipping O'Keeffe's paintings between New Mexico and New York. Lebron was interviewed by Jane Cook.

Letter from Georgia O'Keeffe to Barbara Doroba dated March 27, 1974, and digital recording with Barbara Doroba-Ogg and Michael Ogg about their visit to Georgia O'Keeffe's Abiquiu property where they met O'Keeffe's sister.