Bet You Didn’t Know Georgia O’Keeffe Left Her Famous, Cheating Husband For A Mountain

And the upshot was that part of New Mexico became “Georgia O’Keeffe country.” Why? “As Mont Sainte-Victoire was to Cezanne, so Pedernal was to O’Keeffe, who painted it, obsessively, almost 30 times. ‘It’s my private mountain,’ she once said. ‘It belongs to me. God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.'”