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Preferred Citation

Georgia O'Keeffe letter, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased with the assistance of the Molly Elliot Seawell Endowment.

Biographical / Historical

Georgia O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman. She was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and died on March 6, 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In this letter to Amalia de Schulthess, who O'Keeffe addresses as "Lady of the Rocks," O'Keeffe thanks her for a sculpture that was at the time sitting on a table with other sculptures O'Keeffe had previously acquired from North Africa.

Content Description

A letter from Georgia O'Keeffe to Swiss artist and patron Amalia de Schulthess thanking her for a sculpture.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Correspondence
• Letter writing
• Letters (correspondence)
• Painters--America