Georgia O'Keeffe was born in 1887
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She was born on November 15, 1887 and was the second of seven children. Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
She decided to pursue art as a career at a young age and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York pursuing traditional painting technique. She experimented with abstract art forms for 2 years while teaching art in Texas. Her charcoal abstracts gave her personal insight to expressing her feelings and ideas.
There are many who like me felt that the elements of some of her work had the stark resemblence to female anatomy — particularly the flowers. Nonetheless she remains a tour de force in the world of art and will likely remain so for the forseeable future.
She was born November 15, 1887, near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and passed March 6, 1986, at Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is rememmbered for her large-format paintings of natural subjects and the skyscrapers of New York City as well as the architecture and landscape of northern New Mexico.
Rest in peace.