Papa and I drove to Santa Fe yesterday. The drive to Abiquiu is always spectacular, and there wasn’t much traffic, so Papa stopped on the highway so I could take these photos of Rio Chama.
From Abiquiu, the drive to Santa Fe is about an hour, and we arrived at The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian for our 10:00 reservation. “The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is devoted to Native American arts. It was founded in 1937, by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, who came from Boston, and Hosteen Klah, a Navajo singer and medicine man.” Mary Cabot Wheelwright was born into a wealthy family. She was an only child and remained dedicated to both her parents until their deaths. At age 40, after both her parents had died, Wheelwright journeyed to the American Southwest, where she found and embraced a more adventurous and more exciting life than the safety of Boston. She met Hosteen Klah in 1921 and they remained close until his death, in 1937, just a few months before the Museum opened. The museum’s design is based on a hogan.
We had a 12:30 reservation at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, which we thoroughly enjoyed, even more after visiting her home in Abiquiu a few days ago, and looking out the windows of our summer rental house and seeing so many things she painted.
