O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, Adams, Steichen, and the gang

We just walked back from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.  I’ve always liked her work, and I like it even more now.

Ms. O’Keeffe visited this area of New Mexico for many years, staying for months at a time, and, after the death of her husband (who owned a famous art gallery in New York City), took up residence here for the last decades of her exceptionally long life (1887-1986).

Next door to the Museum is a commercial photography gallery that concentrates on originals of the work of Alfred Stieglitz (Georgia O’Keeffe’s husband), Ansel Adams (a longtime friend of Ms. O’Keeffe’s), Edward Steichen, and others of their circle.

Wonderful stuff.

Unfortunately, the gallery’s owners know it.

Thus, for example, one of Ansel Adams’s famous photographs of Yosemite was for sale there at $240,000.  And that price, in the wake of my getting the boot from the hyper-lucrative apologetics gig that I once enjoyed at the Maxwell Institute — I know of my formerly enormous apologetics income from reading about it in certain anonymous message board posts — is just a bit beyond my current financial comfort zone.

Posted from Santa Fe, New Mexico