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Georgia O’Keeffe





 

Georgia O’Keeffe
 

(b Sun Prairie, WI, 15 Nov 1887; d Santa Fe, NM, 6 March 1986).

American painter and draughtsman. She decided to become an artist when she was 12. From 1905 to 1906 she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she went to New York to study oil, pastel and watercolour painting at the Art Students League. She worked there for a year with William Merritt Chase and won the Chase Still Life Scholarship. In 1908 she saw the first American exhibitions of the work of Auguste Rodin (watercolours) and of Henri Matisse at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, known as 291, run by Alfred Stieglitz.

 

Red Poppy
1927

Oriental Poppies
1928


 

From the Lake no 1

White Rose with Larkspur No. 2


 

Series I, no 4
1918


 

Two Calla Lillies on Pin
1928


 

A Sunflower from Maggie


 

Black Iris II


 

Autumn Leaves, Lake George
1924


 

White Camelia


 

Red Canna

Black and Purple Petunias


 

Lake George, Early Morning


 

Petunia


 

Black Mesa Landscape


 

Light Iris
1924


 

Jack in the Pulpit No 4


 

Ram's Skull with Brown Leaves


 

Red, White, and Blue


 

 Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills
1935