Monet, O’Keeffe, and More: Inside the Inspiring Homes of 10 Legendary Artists Inline
Photo: Herb Lotz / Courtesy of The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum1/10Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abiquiu Home and Studio
The prolific painter purchased this home just outside of Santa Fe, in 1945. It was O’Keeffe’s sanctuary and a place she very rarely left in her later years. The house is a typical New Mexico adobe-style building, with a large garden outside. Inside, it’s decorated with starkly minimal furniture and artwork that ranges from a Calder mobile to Pueblo Indian pottery.
Photo: Courtesy of Museo Frida Kahlo2/10Museo Frida Kahlo
Also known as La Casa Azul, this was the house that Kahlo was born and raised in. Located in Mexico City’s Coyoacán borough, the rooms have been kept relatively the same over the years, dotted not only with Kahlo’s and Diego Rivera’s own work, but their personal letters, notes, photographs, and memorabilia. In the two rooms upstairs, you can stand among the original furniture from Kahlo’s bedroom and studio area.
Photo: Courtesy of The Judd Foundation3/10Judd Foundation
For a man who loathed being called a minimalist, Donald Judd surrounded himself with only the essentials—a mattress covered in plain white sheets on the floor, basic wooden tables and chairs, and bare
lightbulbs in the ceilings. His bright, open-space, five-story loft building in New York City’s Soho neighborhood houses a great deal of his work and has been open to the public only since 2013. Many also consider the Judd house to be the birthplace of the permanent art installation.
Photo: Getty Images4/10Pollock Krasner House and Study Center
In East Hampton, you can take a tour of the small 19th-century fisherman’s home and studio that once belonged to the painters Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. The rooms have gone mostly untouched since Krasner’s death in 1984, with items like Pollock’s jazz record collection and his personal library still in their original places. On the same property inside the barn studio, which never had any heat or light, the floors are covered with Pollock’s signature paint splatters.
Photo: Carlos Alejandro / Courtesy of The N.C. Wyeth House Studio5/10The N.C. Wyeth House and Studio
Wyeth was famous for the illustrations he created for such classic novels as The Last of the Mohicans in 1919 and Treasure Island in 1911; the proceeds of the latter even helped pay for his home that still stands today in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The inside of the main house and the studio remains as it did while he lived there, with farmhouse interiors in dark wood and a workspace highlighted by props like a canoe hanging from the ceiling.
