Weekends with O'Keeffe by C. S. Merrill

Author:C. S. Merrill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

October 13, 1975

This morning early we drove to Abiquiu from the ranch. It was windy and chilly, dark with blue clouds. Here and there the sunrise was showing through with bright colors. The top of Pedernal was covered with a flat white fog cloud. We had breakfast. I typed a few lists left over from the ranch book room. Miss O’Keeffe called Santa Fe for a vet to take care of Jingo’s right foot. It may be a splinter, goat’s head (a kind of sticker that has two sharp prongs like a goat’s horns), or a rock bruise. Maybe it could be arthritis. We went to the book room after I read a list of books considered valuable to a rare book curator from Los Angeles. Miss O’Keeffe said that after two shelves of books toppled over, she had a wonderful several days going through them, remembering people and places connected with them. So I think she is no longer very interested in unloading the books soon. At any rate, I am bringing a list back at her bidding to show George Miller at the University of New Mexico General Library to get more advice about the collection. She showed me an article about Henry McBride, who was a critic they waited for after an opening. It was in ARTnews written by Daniel Catton Rich. O’Keeffe said there is a book by Rich about McBride coming out this fall. He seemed like an impressive man, a Quaker into leading public taste, not directing or bullying.

Lunch with Juan was hilarious as usual. He makes a continuous stream of humorous remarks like how many people leave O’Keeffe at a run holding up their pants as they go, the former secretaries. We discussed the Ghost Ranch promotional film which has a sneaky fifteen seconds of O’Keeffe and another thirty seconds of her paintings, one of the skull, and another one with a large pink flower.

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