O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Full Name- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe

Born- November 15,1887 in Sunprairie, Wisconsin

Died- March 6,1986 in Santa fe, New Mexico

Art Medium/materials-she used oil paints and later in her life she started pottery

Subject/genre.-bones and skulls, bleached white by the desert sun,flowers, rolling hills, rocks and skies.

Art movement/period-works portray nature simply - highly abstract designs.

Title of artwork-Petunia Year it was created-1924 Medium-oil on canvas



= Interesting Facts- =
 * At age 16 she went to study art in Chicago
 * In 1912 Georgia accepted a position as a art teacher at a small college in Texas
 * The american photographer Alfred Stieglitz first showed O'keeffe's paintings in 1916
 * In 1929 O'Keefe moved to New Mexico and started painting skulls, hills, and rocks
 * When she was little she ate dirt to see what it tasted like
 * Georgia O'Keeffe was a very good artist,she was in the top 10 greatest painters
 * Georgia O'Keeffe ate healthy throughout her whole life
 * The area were she worked and lived was called O'Keeffe country
 * Within a decade she discribed herself as one of america's most important modern artists
 * Arthur Wesley had influenced O'Keeffe to become an artist

Works Cited:

"Georgia O'Keeffe." Hulton Archive/Getty Images. World Book Online.13 Feb. 2012.
Stewart, Patrick. "O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887–1986)." The New Book of Knowledge. Grolier Online, 2015. Web. 24 Feb. 2015. Leveton, Deborah. "O'Keeffe, Georgia." World Book Student. World Book, 2015. Web. 24 Feb. 2015. Venezia, Mike. Georgia O’keeffe. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1993.