O’Keeffe Foundation will transfer works

The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation will transfer its collection -- including more than 1,000 of the artist’s works -- to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., next year. The agreement also gives archival materials and O’Keeffe’s house and studio in Abiquiu, N.M., to the museum.

“This agreement firmly establishes the museum as the single most important repository of O’Keeffe’s work,” director George G. King said in a statement this week.

O’Keeffe died March 6, 1986, in Santa Fe. The foundation was created by a court in 1989 after a legal fight involving Juan Hamilton -- O’Keeffe’s assistant and companion, and her principal heir -- and some of the artist’s relatives, who challenged her will. Its tasks include distributing her works of art and making permanent arrangements for the Abiquiu house.