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For us, landscape paintings she created in New view both the scene and the O’Keeffe painting of
Mexico in the 1930s and 40s emerged as our fa- it. We could see her “editing” - what she omitted or
vorites. The tour became almost a spiritual jour- added, emphasized or diminished. Because Ghost
ney — experiencing the stark beauty of the land, Ranch gets so little rainfall, some scenes were al-
seeing it through the artist’s eyes, and under- most identical to what she viewed decades earlier.
standing her “sense of place.” Shrubs, trees, and rock formations provided a re-
As Julia took us from one dramatic landscape to alistic framework, while the sky, clouds, and the
another, she would position us so that we could land often were manipulated to add an abstract
and spiritual quality.

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