The life of artist Georgia O’Keeffe took an influential turn when she travelled from New York City to Taos, New Mexico on a holiday with a friend in the summer of 1929. Already the toast of the town as a gifted and celebrated artist whose work demanded high prices, she was nevertheless feeling increasingly restless with having to spend every summer with her husband’s family in New York, an activity that encroached on her time to paint and filled it, instead, with the kind of familial pressur...
