O'KEEFFE, Georgia (1887-1986). A group of 9 letters to Jean Ledoux, 1944-1951.

A group of 9 autograph letters signed ("Georgia O'Keeffe" or "Georgia"), comprising 24pp, with original envelopes.

O'Keeffe's letters to her friend Jean Ledoux discuss books, art, and the coordination of visits.

In her 16 August 1944 letter, she describes her home: "I live on the edge of a strip of many miles of badlands -- the governments largest experiment in erosion controls -- they can't control it -- It starts a stones throw from my kitchen door -- and I can not throw far -- red hills - purple shills with streaks and patches of green earth --- yellow and lavender cliffs very high and far-seeing all around the back -- about half a mile away - with their red foothills...the colors and shapes are so fantastic."

After describing travels in her 23 June 1949, letter, she muses: "I intend to settle down and just be a painter." She invites her friend to visit her in New Mexico in her letter of 23 August 1950: "Your moving will not seem so bad when you have been away to a new sort of world." In a 2 July 1951 letter, she apologizes for her slow responses: "Oh I am so slow -- I think so often of you and go on about my life like a squirrel in a cage and do not write in spite of my intentions."

In a November 1951 letter, O'Keeffe reports that she will not visit New York in the winter: "I do not plan to go to N. Y. this winter --- it seems so far away to me that I find the years there almost like a dream."

Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York