Seventy-Seven

Study (after Watteau). I recently spent a weekend in Taos at the Mabel Dodge Luhan house. So many of the artists and writers I love, such as Willa Cather, Carl Jung, Georgia O'Keeffe and Andrew Dasburg stayed there in the past at Mabel's invitation. I loved eating breakfast at the long wooden table and imagining the conversations they might have had.

I read that Georgia O'Keeffe was in a depression and couldn't paint, she was living in upstate New York and found the world around her to be too green. So Mabel invited her to Taos to see if that would help. It was in the desert that her depression lifted and she began to paint again, many of those paintings are the ones she is most famous for.