Georgia O'Keeffe spent her final years and died in New Mexico.
O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 98. New Mexico had been central to her life and art for decades, especially after she began visiting the state in the 1920s and later made it her permanent home.
The state's desert landscapes, cliffs, bones, roads, and architectural forms became recurring subjects. O'Keeffe lived and worked in places including Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch, and her New Mexico paintings helped shape the public image of the American Southwest in modern art.
New Mexico was not her birthplace: she was born in Wisconsin, and her early professional life centered largely on teaching and the New York art world. The state became especially important in maturity, when she sought a landscape that offered intense light, strong forms, and considerable independence from the Manhattan art scene.