Last week, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum library and archive welcomed two photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe to the collection. The photographs were created by Patricia Ebsworth in 1981 on the day of her wedding at O’Keeffe’s house in Abiquiu, NM. Patricia’s husband, Barney Ebsworth, a long-time friend and collector of O’Keeffe’s work, made a special request of O’Keeffe to have an intimate and brief wedding at her home. She agreed to host the couple and serve as witness to the wedding. Ebsworth later spoke about the event in an oral history interview with Sarah Burt of The Georgia O’Keefe Foundation.
...That was in 1981. I was surprised that I didn't have any notes from that, but maybe I figured that I'd never forget it. It's sort of interesting, and sad, too, that when that happened, she was squeezing Patricia's hands the whole time and saying, "I don't believe in marriage. I'm doing this for Barney. I've only been to two weddings in my life. It was when I married Alfred [and this one]." If that was the case, I was sort of startled that she'd never been to another friend's wedding...
The photographs were a gift of Deanne Kloepfer in honor of Patricia Ebsworth and will be added to the archive and available to the public soon. Learn more about the Barney Ebsworth interview and other oral histories in the archive at Georgia O'Keeffe Oral History Project, ca. 1970s, 1991-2010.
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