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Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887-1986)
Who Was Georgia O'Keeffe?
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York.
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Photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz gave O'Keeffe her first gallery show in 1916, and the couple married in 1924. Considered the "mother of American modernism," O'Keeffe moved to New Mexico after her husband's death and was inspired by the landscape to create numerous well-known paintings.
O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
BORN: November 15, 1887
BIRTHPLACE: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
DEATH: March 6, 1986
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio
Early Life
O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, on a wheat farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
Her parents grew up together as neighbors; her father Francis Calixtus O'Keeffe was Irish, and her mother Ida Totto was of Dutch and Hungarian heritage. Georgia, the second of seven children, was named after her Hungari