Georgia O鈥橩eeffe Museum Launches Access O鈥橩eeffe, a Groundbreaking Digital Catalogue 搁补颈蝉辞苍苍茅
The open-access platform redefines how scholars, museums, and the public engage with the works of Georgia O鈥橩eeffe, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE鈥揊ebruary 23, 2026鈥�(Santa Fe, NM) 鈥� After a decade of work, Access O鈥橩eeffe officially launches on Wednesday, March 4, and will mark a major advance in the field of art historical scholarship and digital humanities. Designed as a dynamic, evolving research platform, Access O鈥橩eeffe offers unprecedented access to authoritative information on O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 work, bringing together rigorous scholarship, innovative technology, and a reaffirmed commitment to broad public access. More than 2,200 works of O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 will be searchable with high-resolution images, visual descriptions, exhibition histories, archival materials, and research data associated at
鈥淎ccess O鈥橩eeffe transforms more than the way we interact with O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 art and legacy鈥攊t revolutionizes the catalogue raisonn茅 as we know it. After many years of research and planning, we are thrilled to see it come alive as a tool for learning and exploring the art and life of Georgia O鈥橩eeffe,鈥� Museum Director Cody Hartley said.
Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Access O鈥橩eeffe provides an accessible, dynamic platform to explore the inspiring life and art of Georgia O鈥橩eeffe as a user-friendly, searchable website with high-resolution images, visual descriptions, exhibition histories, archival materials, and research data associated with the artist鈥檚 two-volume catalogue raisonn茅, originally written by preeminent O鈥橩eeffe scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes in 1999.
The resulting product, built on a linked data platform (using the open Linked Art data standard), offers entirely new ways to explore O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 full body of work. 糖心原创ors can browse by color, shape, or medium, explore the context of works created before and after a specific painting, trace historic exhibitions, create lists of favorites, and download images, including letters O鈥橩eeffe wrote and photographs she captured. In addition to the Museum鈥檚 own collection, works are showcased from more than 130 organizations with contributions of more than 200 updated images and up-to-date information on works in their collections, including the National Gallery of Art, the McNay Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo. As new scholarship emerges, the digital catalogue raisonn茅 can be updated in real time.
鈥淎 catalogue raisonn茅 has long been considered the final word on an artist鈥檚 work. With Access O鈥橩eeffe, we鈥檙e flipping that idea on its head鈥攖ransforming it into a living dialogue where new voices, discoveries, and perspectives can continuously reshape what we know about Georgia O鈥橩eeffe,鈥� said Curator of Digital Experience Liz Neely, who spearheaded the project.
Georgia O鈥橩eeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art. Her work was first exhibited by Alfred Stieglitz in New York City in 1916, and soon she was recognized as one of America鈥檚 most important and successful artists. She eventually moved to New Mexico and would continue painting well into the 1970s, producing more than 2,200 works of art through her career.
While O鈥橩eeffe鈥檚 works are now spread around the globe among private collections and Museums, most of these works can be viewed with full provenance, high-resolution images, and other details in Access O鈥橩eeffe. As a digital platform, this information can be constantly updated with new discoveries.
鈥淎dding new voices and new perspectives to this research is exciting. It allows for this profound collection to become a living document, able to be updated and kept relevant well into the future. After more than 30 years of studying O鈥橩eeffe, she still interests me. I hope Access O鈥橩eeffe can spark that same interest and curiosity in others around the world,鈥� Lynes said.
Learn More:
Join Liz Neely to learn firsthand about Access O鈥橩eeffe during an online talk presented as part of the Museum鈥檚 Mornings with O鈥橩eeffe series on March 4 at 9:00 AM. Neely will give insight on the years of development behind this new tool and how it can be enjoyed from anywhere with an internet connection.
This virtual lecture is free with advanced registration on the Museum website. Email contact@gokm.org or call 505-496-1000 for assistance with event registration. This program will be recorded and posted on our website and YouTube Channel.
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Supplementary materials: Access O鈥橩eeffe, a Groundbreaking Digital Catalogue 搁补颈蝉辞苍苍茅, to Launch in Early 2026
For media inquiries, contact:
Renee Lucero | Public Relations Manager, Georgia O鈥橩eeffe Museum | 505-946-1063
Image credits:
- Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918. Gelatin silver print, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Museum Purchase. 2014.3.78. 漏 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
- Screenshot of Access O鈥橩eeffe filtering O鈥橩eeffe works by the color blue.
- Founding Curator and O鈥橩eeffe scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes with Curator of Digital Experience Liz Neely photographed for Access O’Keeffe project in the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Library & Archive. Photograph by Alex Ignacio.
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ABOUT LIZ NEELY: Liz Neely is the Curator of Digital Experience at the Georgia O鈥橩eeffe Museum where she leads efforts to publish the art, historic home, and archives collections. She produced the digital publications Exhibiting O鈥橩eeffe: The Making of an American Modernist, and Josephine Halvorson, as well as the short film, Following Enchantment鈥檚 Line, directed by Steven J. Yazzie (Din茅/Laguna Pueblo/Anglo)
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ABOUT THE GEORGIA O鈥橩EEFFE MUSEUM: Since 1997, the Georgia O鈥橩eeffe Museum celebrates the art, life, and independent spirit of Georgia O鈥橩eeffe. Located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Georgia O鈥橩eeffe lived the final decades of her life, the O鈥橩eeffe has sites and experiences in two historic destinations, Santa Fe and Abiqui煤. For more information, please visit gokm.org.
