O'Keeffe left New York to take up residence first on Ghost Ranch and then in Albiquiu, New Mexico.

"In [Van Gogh's] studio, he kept a lacquered box containing balls of brightly colored yarn  that he endlessly twined and untwined to test the interaction of colors . . .

Morandi lived with his three unmarried sisters in a dingy apartment in the northern Italian town.  He was unmarried and a loner, perhaps even suffering from agoraphobia.

Seeing Cézanne in Aix gives you the double whammy of seeing his work and then immediately observing the landscape that inspired it.