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In the Galleries: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Published August 24, 2007 at midnight

• What: Museum in Santa Fe devoted to work by the artist and her Modernist peers turns 10

• Events: Dinners, lecture and concert, tonight through Sunday

• The story: The O'Keeffe has been marking its 10th birthday all summer (it debuted in July 1997) but wraps things up this weekend with a variety of events.

The museum opened its doors at 217 Johnson St. with a collection of fewer than 200 works (most by O'Keeffe), but now it boasts 15 times that, including about 1,200 by the artist who drew inspiration from Northern New Mexico. The O'Keeffe also opened a research center several years ago for the study of Modernism.

Founders Anne and John Merion have been repeatedly honored for their contributions to the museum. But credit also is due founding director Peter Hassrick, who left shortly after the opening; Western scholar Hassrick now is director of the Denver Art Museum's Institute of Western American Art.

• The shows up now: Worth a trip are the companion exhibitions "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction," which examines the artist's use of organic and circular shapes, and "Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro," candid shots of the artist at work and rest. These highly compatible shows work well together - through Sept. 9.

• Information: 505-946-1000; okeeffemuseum.org

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