{"id":402987,"date":"2026-04-17T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402987\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:52:30","slug":"georgia-okeeffe-museum-launches-digital-catalogue-raisonne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402987\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone can now browse through over 2,000 works by the artist, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches.<\/p>\n


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\n Georgia O\u2019Keeffe’s “Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico\/Out Back of Marie\u2019s II” (1930) (\u00a9 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum; all photos courtesy Georgia O’Keeffe Museum)<\/p>\n

Barbara Buhler Lynes, the preeminent Georgia O’Keeffe scholar, remembers the first time she was enraptured by the artist’s oeuvre.<\/p>\n

It was 1987, one year after O’Keeffe’s death. Lynes, a Renaissance art historian at the time, visited the National Gallery of Art\u2019s centennial exhibition<\/a> in her honor. In an interview with Hyperallergic, Lynes recalled that the dozens of paintings and drawings on view, including a collection of early abstract works, sparked a question that would launch her decades-long scholarship on O’Keeffe: \u201cWhy had she turned away from abstraction, which was the most innovative thing happening in American art at the time, to essential representational imagery, which was much more traditional?\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s art and personal history, Lynes researched and published the artist\u2019s definitive catalogue raisonn\u00e9<\/a> in 1999, for which she personally examined 2,029 works. Now, the Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico \u2014 where Lynes served as the founding curator \u2014 has digitized her scholarship as part of a free online platform, Access O\u2019Keeffe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Using the tool, anyone can now browse through images of O\u2019Keeffe’s oeuvre \u2014 including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches \u2014 held at various institutions and private collections around the world. Users can also sort works by color, medium, and theme.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Bella Donna” (1939) (photo Tim Nighswander\/IMAGING4ART)<\/p>\n

Liz Neely, the Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Museum’s curator of Digital Experience, told Hyperallergic that the institution first conceived of the idea for the digital archive a decade ago.<\/p>\n

“\u200aThese last two years have really been thinking about: How do we reach out to all the public institutions? How do we get new images? How did we work through all the audience research so we could make a tool that was broadly accessible to a lot of people?” Neely said.<\/p>\n

Neely led the efforts to develop Access O\u2019Keeffe, which launched in February, in consultation with Lynes. Several works have changed hands since the catalogue was published, and the new digital resource contains updated information on the works’ provenance and exhibitions.<\/p>\n

\"\"Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Above the Clouds I” (1962\u201363) (photo Tim Nighswander\/IMAGING4ART)<\/p>\n

Though the project follows in the footsteps of other digitized catalogs, such as Van Gogh Worldwide<\/a>, the museum encountered its own obstacles in launching the tool.\u00a0When President Trump slashed<\/a> federal arts funding early last year, the museum\u2019s $243,570 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to build Access O\u2019Keeffe disappeared, with $100,000 left unpaid. <\/p>\n

Neely said the museum was prepared to fund the remainder of the project. But before the museum could step up to fill the gap, a lawsuit<\/a> filed by attorneys general against IMLS led to the restoration<\/a> of the project’s funding last year.<\/p>\n

\"\"Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Green Lines and Pink” (1919) (photo Tim Nighswander\/IMAGING4ART)<\/p>\n

The platform\u2019s core audience, Neely said, includes educators, artists, scholars, and researchers of O\u2019Keeffe.\u00a0She added that it could prove a useful tool for authors writing about her life, curators organizing exhibitions, and filmmakers studying the artist’s life. <\/p>\n

Nearly four decades after her first brush with O’Keeffe’s work, Lynes said she was excited about the possibilities of the new platform, which carries the torch of her scholarship into the digital age and will “lead to new discoveries.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a mechanism that allows search potential in a way that is really quite revolutionary and revelatory,\u201d Lynes said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News Anyone can now browse through over 2,000 works by the artist, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-402987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}