Which university awarded Georgia O'Keeffe an honorary degree in 1971?

The University of New Mexico awarded Georgia O'Keeffe an honorary degree in 1971.

The University of New Mexico recognized O'Keeffe with an honorary degree in 1971. The Albuquerque institution was located in the state where O'Keeffe had established her home and developed some of her most recognizable landscape imagery. Her connection with New Mexico had become central to both her public identity and her artistic legacy.

An honorary degree is not the same as an art-school qualification. O'Keeffe's formal education included the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, while the University of New Mexico honor came decades later as recognition of her achievements.

The award also reflected the state's relationship with a major modernist artist. O'Keeffe's New Mexico paintings helped make regional forms such as adobe architecture, desert bones, and high-desert landscapes part of a broader American modernist vocabulary.