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Most of the viewpoints we visited were land- headed back to the parking lot, Julie smiled and
scapes she discovered in 1934. She would return told us we had one last stop. In a few minutes, she
to paint these scenes for the next 20 years. They pulled over and pointed out a large rather plain-
were perhaps the most realistic and faithful of her looking adobe hugging the arid land and sur-
abstracted New Mexico landscapes. We felt her rounded by fence and scrub. This was O’Keeffe’s
spirit most strongly when we stood in front of a second home, her summer house, twelve miles
twisted cedar tree that looked as if she had from her larger and more elaborate Abiquiú home
painted it yesterday. We couldn’t help posing in where she spent winters. We could have easily
front of it. missed it if we didn’t have a guide.
Our hour and a half tour flew by, but as we O’Keeffe purchased the house and seven-acre

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