Juan Hamilton and Georgia O'Keeffe's initial meeting was not a pleasant one. After multiple encounters between the two individuals, O'Keefe eventually hired Hamilton for some odd jobs around her New Mexico studio. This was the beginning of nearly 14 years of the close friendship between O’Keeffe, the famous American painter and the legendary Alfred Stieglitz’s wife and muse, and Juan Hamilton, a modest potter, 58 years her junior. Hamilton became O’Keeffe’s driver, gardener, assistant, secretary, travel companion, and closest friend. ‘Part of what she liked about me was that I didn’t put her on a pedestal,’ Hamilton once said. But this union wasn’t without its share of drama.
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