adobe
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They show O’Keeffe’s favored back view, and the beguilingly spare, almost biomorphic forms of its massive adobe buttresses, along with the subtle shadows, that make that completely understandable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
O’Keeffe was quite distinctive—and here at her best—in her paintings of adobe buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Their adobe color blends so seamlessly into the landscape that you could speed by them without much notice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
Eventually, however, the lush commons became something like adobe hills.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
It was made of sand-colored adobe and had two soaring steeples, a gigantic circular stained-glass window, and, leading up to the two main doors, a pair of sweeping staircases covered with pigeons.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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