Georgia O'Keeffe
Painting, Visual Artist
1887 – 1986
Who was Georgia O'Keeffe?
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist.
Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.
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- Born
- Nov 15, 1887
Sun Prairie - Also known as
- Georgia O'Keefe
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Alfred Stieglitz
(1924/12/11 - 1946/07/13)
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Ethnicity
- Americans
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Virginia
(1912 - 1912) - School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(1905 - 1906) - Teachers College, Columbia University
(1914 - 1915) - Chatham Hall
(1903 - 1905) - Art Students League of New York
(1907 - 1908)
- University of Virginia
- Employment
- Columbia College
(1915 - ) - Teaching assistant, University of Virginia
- Columbia College
- Lived in
- Wisconsin
- Santa Fe
- Sun Prairie
- Peacock Hill
- Chicago
- New York City
- Died
- Mar 6, 1986
Santa Fe
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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