Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonné
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has launched a free online digital catalogue raisonné, Access O’Keeffe, allowing the public to browse more than 2,000 works by Georgia O’Keeffe, including paintings, early sketches, and handwritten letters. The platform digitizes scholarship by Barbara Buhler Lynes, who examined 2,029 works for her definitive 1999 catalogue raisonné and consulted on the new resource, which also updates provenance and exhibition histories as works have changed hands. Curator of Digital Experience Liz Neely said the museum conceived the project about a decade ago and spent the last two years coordinating images and audience research to make the tool broadly accessible. The project faced a funding disruption when a $243,570 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant was cut during federal arts funding reductions early last year, leaving $100,000 unpaid, before the funding was restored after a lawsuit by attorneys general against IMLS.
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