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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.

 

Special No. 21


 

From Plains no 1


 

Canyon With Crows


 

Evening Star, No. III
1917


 

Evening Star No. IV


 

Portrait no III

Red Mesa


 

Jawbone and Fungus


 

Grapes on White Dish


 

Plums


 

Apple Family A


 

My Cabin at Lake George


 

Corn, Dark I


 

Iris


 

 Peach and Glass


 

Seaweed


 

Yellow Hickory Leaves With


 

Iris
1929