Maria Chabot

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Letters between O’Keeffe and Chabot dating from 1941-1949 describing their connection to the people and places of northern New Mexico and the reconstruction of O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú house.

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Maria Chabot met Georgia O'Keeffe in Northern New Mexico in 1940. For four summers beginning in 1941, when O'Keeffe was in New Mexico, Chabot lived with the artist at Ghost Ranch, managing her house and guests, and organizing the famed camping-painting trips from which came some of O'Keeffe's most distinguished works of the period. In 1946, Chabot agreed to oversee the reconstruction of a ruined adobe house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, that would become O'Keeffe's permanent home in 1949.

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Michael Wallis weaves the complex story of Los Luceros throughout the larger context of Northern New Mexico history, from the earliest human inhabitants to the present day, introducing its past occupiers, owners, and visitors, including Spanish and American soldiers and cavalrymen. During Mary Cabot Wheelwright's long reign at Los Luceros, it was visited by New Mexico's prominent writers, artists, and art patrons, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and D.H. Lawrence. During the past decade, the property was acquired by the State of New Mexico to be managed by New Mexico Historic Sites as a living museum

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 12, 2010-Sept. 6, 2010.