People, Nov. 28, 1977

When told that she was one of the roots of abstract art, Georgia O'Keeffe laughed: "Well, I must be one of the old roots." O'Keeffe turned 90 last week and has not slowed down. "It seems as if we have an awful lot to do, too much to do," she fretted. But to celebrate her new nonagenarian status, O'Keeffe took a minivacation from her home and studio in Abiquiu, N. Mex., and ventured east. After posing in front of one of her paintings in Washington's National Gallery, she spent her birthday strolling in the...

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