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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.

 

Nude series VIII
1917


 

Blue and Green Music


 

Special no 5


 

An Orchid


 

The Dark Iris


 

White Sweet Peas


 

White Iris


 

 Black Iris No.2
1936


 

Goat's horn with red


 

Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow


 

Datura and Pedernal


 

Red Hills and White Flower
1937


 

Cup Of Silver


 

Sky Above Clouds IV


 

From the White Place


 

The Gerald Tree


 

Nature Forms


 

Jack in the Pulpit No 6


 

Cows Skull on Red


 

Thigh Bone with Black Stripe


 

East River from the Shelton
1928


 

The Radiator Building at Night


 

New York, Night


 

Night in the City


 

Hotel Shelton no 1


 

The Shelton with Sunspots


 

Street, New York 1
1926