Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

The present work closely relates to Road--Mesa with Mist (1961, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois). Of the scene O'Keeffe remarked, "Two walls of my room in the Abiquiu house are glass and from the window I see the road toward Espafiola, Santa Fe and all the world. The road fascinates me with its ups and downs and finally its wide sweep as it speeds toward the wall of my hilltop to go past me." ("O'Keeffe's Trail of Art," El Palacio, vol. 102, no. 1, Summer-Fall 1997, p. 54)