The Collectors Are Coming! A Party for Grand Cornelia
My collectors are coming.
New York. Seattle. Miami. Dallas. Scottsdale. Santa Fe. Chicago. Houston.
Dear friends. Devoted collectors. People who have lived with my paintings for decades. In homes. Offices. The rooms where days begin and end.
They did not need to be convinced. They simply saw.
I am overjoyed. These are my people. This evening is for them….
Two Artists. Two Cities. Same Sky.
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the first women in New York City to live in a skyscraper.
She took an elevator eleven floors to her studio. Painted the skyline. Painted the sunset from above the New York street. Fierce. Visionary. Completely herself.
I learned this yesterday from Cody Hartley, Executive Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Standing in the Sheldon.
The Sheldon is one of O'Keeffe's most famous painted buildings. She lived there…