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Georgia Totti O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887—March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspiration, and particularly New Mexico, where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
O'Keeffe Early life
O'Keeffe was born in a farmhouse on in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Her parents, Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe, were dairy farmers. Ida Totto O'Keeffe's father, George, for whom Georgia was named, was a Hungarian immigrant. Through her parents, she was also related to Edward Fuller, one of the passengers on the Mayflower and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. O'Keeffe's maternal connection was descended from Edward Fuller's son Matthew.[1] She was the first girl and the second of seven O'Keeffe children. She attended Town Hall School in Wisconsin and received art instruction from local watercolorist, Sara Mann. She attended high school at Sacred Heart Academy in Madison, Wisconsin as a boarder between 1901 and 1902. In fall 1902 the O'Keeffes moved from Wisconsin to Williamsburg in coastal Virginia. Georgia stayed in Wisconsin with her aunt and attended Madison High School, and joined her family in Williamsburg in 1903. She completed high school as a boarder at Chatham Episcopal Institute in Virginia (now Chatham Hall), having graduated in 1905.
Education for women was a family tradition. Georgia's mother Ida had been educated in the East. All the daughters but one became professional women, attesting to her influence on them.
In 1905, O'Keeffe enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907, she attended the Art Students League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. In 1908, she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting mona shehab (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot). Her prize was a scholarship to attend the League's outdoor summer school at Lake George, New York. While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe had attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the 291, owned by her future husband photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
In the fall of 1908, discouraged with her work, O'Keeffe did not return to the League but moved to Chicago and found work as a commercial artist. During this period Georgia did not pick up a brush, and she said that the smell of turpentine made her sick. She became an elementary school art teacher near Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle.[2] She was inspired to paint again in 1912, when she attended a class at the University of Virginia Summer School, where she was introduced to the innovative ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow by Alon Bement. Dow's teachings encouraged artists to express themselves through harmonious compositions and contrasts of light and dark. Dow's teaching strongly influenced O'Keeffe's thinking about the process of making art. She served as a Teaching Assistant to Bement for several years, before returning to Texas to teach in the art department of the fledgling West Texas A&M University (then West Texas State Normal College) in Canyon just south of Amarillo. She was inspired to come to Canyon because of the natural beauty of the nearby large Palo Duro Canyon, carved by wind and water.[2]
Georgia O'Keeffe Legacy
Following O'Keeffe's death her family contested her will because codicils to it made in the 1980s had left all of her estate to Hamilton. The case was ultimately settled in July of 1987 [4]. The case, which was settled out of court, became famous as case law in estate planning.[5][6] A substantial part of her estate's assets were transferred to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, established in Santa Fe in 1997 to perpetuate O'Keeffe's artistic legacy. These assets included a large body of her work, photographs, archival materials, and her Abiquiu house, library, and property.
The 1993 Warren Zevon song "Splendid Isolation" mentions how Zevon, in his search for solitude wants to "be like Georgia O'Keeffe".
We offer handmade painting reproduction of works by Georgia O'Keeffe as below:
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings A Sunflower from Maggie, 1937
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings An Orchid, 1941
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Oriental Poppies
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Autumn Leaves
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Jimson Weed, 1932
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Red Poppy
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings White Shell With Red, c. 1938
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Red Canna, 1923
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Mule Skull and Turkey Feathers
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings Green Oak Leaves.
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