Library Resources

The library has a number of databases that provides access to a variety of resources across a wide spectrum of topic and subject areas in an array of formats, from magazine and journals to book inscriptions and notes. Library databases are easily searchable and contain content that may often be searched by: Keywords, Title, Author, or Subject. We offer these resources to staff, volunteers, researchers, and the general public by appointment. For a complete list of these resources, check out our Online Research Tools & Databases page.

Recommended biographies:

• Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
• Lisle, Laurie. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: Seaview Books, 1980. Rev. ed., New York: Washington Square Press, 1987.
• Robinson, Roxana. Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989.

Chronologies:

• GOKM catalogue raisonne, vol. 2
• Charles Eldredge’s chronology included in Joseph S. Czestochowski’s Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime (Memphis: Torch Press and International Arts, c2004)

Articles about GOK:

• Criticism files, compiled by Barbara Buhler Lynes for her book: O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics. Search in the library online catalog as “Georgia O’Keeffe Criticism Files” as a Boolean search (select: all of these in the title)
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Correspondence:

• Cowart, Jack, Juan Hamilton, and Sarah Greenough. “Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters” [exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington]. Boston: New York Graphic Society Books, 1987.
• Giboire, Clive, ed. Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
• Greenough, Sarah. My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Vol. 1 (1915-1933). New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
• Lynes, Barbara Buhler, and Ann Paden. Maria Chabot and Georgia O’Keeffe Correspondence, 1941-1949. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Houses:

• Lynes, Barbara Buhler and Agapita Judy Lopez. Georgia O’Keeffe and her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu. New York: Abrams, 2012.
• “Architectural Digest visits: Georgia O’Keeffe.” Photography by Mary E. Nichols. Los Angeles, Calif.: Architectural Digest, July 1981.
• “Historic houses: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch: the artist’s first New Mexico Home is faithfully restored.” Text by Dana Micucci, photography by Robert Reck. Los Angeles, Calif.: Architectural Digest, March 2002.

Quotes:

• Bry, Doris, ed. Georgia O’Keeffe: Some Memories of Drawings. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.
• O’Keeffe, Georgia. Georgia O’Keeffe. New York: Viking Press, 1976. Reprint, New York: Penguin Books, 1985.
• Georgia O’Keeffe: Words Works. Vol. 1. Santa Fe, NM: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2013.

Recollections:

• Merrill, C.S. O’Keeffe: Days in a Life. Albuquerque: La Alameda Press, 1995.
• Merrill, C.S. Weekends with O’Keeffe. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011 .
• Patten, Christine Taylor and Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Miss O’Keeffe. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Please note, this is a selected Bibliography and does not include everything written on O’Keeffe.