Where is Georgia O'Keefe?

Several years ago, we toured the state of New Mexico. While in Santa Fe, I was excited about seeing
Georgia O'Keefe's museum. We finally made our way to the general direction of the museum,
but the traffic was so thick, we never could get to the museum itself. We were there in Santa Fe for about 2 days and never could get into the museum. I'm sure the locals know when and how
to see the museum, but we never learned the secret.
When we arrived in Biloxi, I was happy to see the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art was up and running. The building of this museum had barely begun when Katrina hit and it was damaged so
they had to do the repairs before the building of the museum itself could resume.
As we toured the museum, we found sculptures by Richmond Barthe, who was born in Bay St. Louis in 1901. He was an
African-American, and the lady who took our money to tour the museum said they were very happy to have his works because he had come from this area.
There was a nice display of George Ohr pottery. Ohr is called, "The Mad Potter of
Biloxi". Ohr's studio and all his work was destroyed by a fire in 1894 and he then began to experiment and created an astonishing variety of work, which was packed in boxes for 60 years
at his son's junk yard--until discovered by an antiques dealer in the 1970's.
There were a few selected prints in one section of the museum by Andy Warhol, which was kind
of surprising, in such a solemn setting.
All of a sudden, we were back to the starting point of the tour--and at the gift shop. I was
ashamed to ask the lady in the gift shop, but I had to know: "I have a stupid question for you,"
I said. "Where is the Georgia O'Keefe exhibit?"
She smiled and said, "That's not a stupid question at all. We get it all the time. However, the
O'Keefe in the name of this museum is not Georgia O'Keefe, but Jerry O'Keefe. He owns
several funeral homes in this area, and was the first person to make a sizeable donation to
the building of this museum, so they added his name, by calling it the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art."
Well, all I have to say is-- isn't that a brilliant bit of merchandising?
While in Santa Fe I had picked up several brochures and after we got home, I ordered a
Georgia O'Keefe print from a poster store. I guess that's the closest I'll ever get to
anything by good old Georgia!