Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

The permanent home the panel mentions was a ruin when she got it. The adobe in Abiquiú village, with rooms perhaps dating to 1744, belonged to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, which sold it to her in 1945 after long persistence on her part. Her friend Maria Chabot and a local crew spent the next four years rebuilding it, and she wintered there for decades. The house and studio became a National Historic Landmark in 1998 and is shown on museum tours. Her ashes were scattered over Cerro Pedernal, the flat-topped mountain she painted again and again.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) One of America's great and most celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe is known for her unique depictions of natural and architectural forms. She began spending summers painting in Northern New Mexico in 1929 and moved from New York to make it her permanent home in 1949. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum was founded in 1997 in Santa Fe to honor her legacy and extraordinary achievement.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ghost Ranch — 8.7 mi
  Red, yellow and white cliffs above the Piedra Lumbre basin, where Georgia O'Keeffe bought seven acres in 1940 and paleontologists found a hillside full of dinosaurs in 1947.
• Fuller Lodge — 25 mi
  The upright-log dining hall of a boys' ranch school, which fed and housed the Manhattan Project after the Army bought the school in 1942.
• El Santuario de Chimayó — 30 mi
  A small adobe shrine on the High Road to Taos, built around 1816 over earth that pilgrims still carry away in hope of healing.

More markers nearby

• Red Rocks — steps away
• Abiquiú — 3.7 mi
• Doña Margarita Martín — 21 mi
• Los Luceros Hacienda — 21 mi