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Maria Chabot met Georgia O'Keeffe in Northern New Mexico in 1940. O'Keeffe,
one of America's most celebrated artists, was fifty-three and had just
purchased a house at Ghost Ranch where she had painted over several previous
summers. Chabot, a San Antonian and an aspiring but unknown writer, was a
robust twenty-six and familiar with the largely Spanish-speaking culture of the
region. The two were drawn to each other for different reasons. To be free to
paint, O'Keeffe needed capable help to sustain and provision her remote
household, and although Chabot needed a place to live where she could pursue
her writing with minimum distraction, she was also seeking a mentor. 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 organising the
famed camping-painting trips from which came some of O'Keeffe's most
distinguished works of the period. In 1946, Chabot agreed to conceive and
oversee the reconstruction of a ruined adobe house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, that
would become O'Keeffe's permanent home in 1949. During the periods when O'Keeffe was in New York where she lived with her
husband, famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz, the two women wrote each other
with remarkable frequency. Their letters describe their love for northern New
Mexico, the hardships of life there during World War II, and their interactions
with the diverse cultural groups of the region. The letters also offer insights
into the women's very different ways of dealing with the world and their
differing perceptions of a complex and sometimes tempestuous friendship. For four summers beginning in 1941, young writer Maria Chabot managed
Georgia O'Keefe's household in New Mexico. During periods when O'Keefe was
living with her husband in New York, the women exchanged hundreds of letters.
This volume presents 678 examples of their correspondences, which document
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