TY - BOOK AU - Albert,Susan Wittig TI - Someone always nearby: a novel of Georgia O'Keeffe and Maria Chabot SN - 9798885794138 PY - 2023/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press KW - Chabot, Maria, KW - O'Keeffe, Georgia, KW - Stieglitz, Alfred, KW - Female friendship KW - Fiction KW - Letters KW - Nineteen forties KW - Women artists KW - 20th century KW - Women authors KW - Abiquiu (N.M.) KW - Large type books KW - Biographical fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-406) N2 - In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot - a young and naïve would-be writer - to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WWII; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz) and Maria's design and building of a remarkable adobe house and studio for the artist in the native village of Abiquiu - a generous gift from an exceptional friend ER -