Against the stunning New Mexico landscape Charlize Theron looks strikingly beautiful – and a bit rugged. Vogue’s September cover girl posed against the adobe walls of Ghost Ranch – just outside Abiquiu, NM – once home to painter Georgia O’Keeffe.
Shot to resemble the legendary painter who notably cited New Mexico’s landscape as her muse, Theron finds similar inspiration. “I look at this environment and I understand why Georgia O’Keeffe would want to settle here and paint,” said Theron in a video diary shown on Vogue’s website, style.com. “Essence can be left behind and there’s definitely an essence of Georgia O’Keeffe here. It’s quite magical.”
Vogue’s September O’Keeffe feature previews the Lifetime Original Movie ‘Georgia O’Keeffe,’ starring three-time Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Joan Allen and Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Jeremy Irons, premiering on Lifetime Television September 19, 2009. Shot entirely in New Mexico, the drama chronicles the “turbulent, 20-year love affair between celebrated artist Georgia O’Keeffe (Allen) and photographer Alfred Stieglitz,” the Lifetime website said.
Chosen both for its extraordinary landscapes as well as its attractive tax rebate film incentive program, New Mexico currently represents one of the largest film industries in the country. Some other notable films shot recently in New Mexico are, No Country for Old Men, Terminator, North Country, The Burning Plain and In the Valley of Elah.
Vogue also mentions Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, in Santa Fe, NM, which houses more than 3,000 of O’Keeffe pieces, representing “the largest repository of her work available to the public in a single institution.”
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