Georgia O'Keeffe
15 November 1887 – 6 March 1986
Georgia O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist known as the 'Mother of American modernism'. She is celebrated for her large-scale paintings of flowers, New York skyscrapers, and the landscapes and forms of the New Mexico desert. Over a career spanning seven decades, she became one of the most significant and influential American artists of the twentieth century.
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Life events
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe photographer Alfred Stieglitz gave her a solo show at his New York gallery 291.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgO'Keeffe married the photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, who championed her work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe created her celebrated series of enlarged, close-up flower paintings in New York.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgO'Keeffe started visiting New Mexico, whose landscapes and desert forms transformed her work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgAfter Stieglitz's death she moved permanently to Abiquiú and Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgO'Keeffe died in Santa Fe at the age of 98.
Source: en.wikipedia.org