Georgia O Keeeffe Biography

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Georgia O'Keeffe is a 20th century American painter best known for her flower canvases and southwestern landscapes. For many decades she remained a major figure in American art. Astonishingly, she continued and independent artist even through the shifting art trends and remained true to her own unique vision. She always seemed to focus on finding the basic and essential, abstract forms in nature. She was born in 1887 near the small town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Throughout her early life she received art training at many different institutes, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of New York, the University of Virginia, and Columbia University’s Teachers College, New York. She also became an art teacher and taught at many …show more content…

From that point on, up until his death in 1946, Stieglitz promoted all of O’Keeffe’s art. The two of them immediately moved in together and were even married in 1924. Stieglitz recorded the ups and downs of their relationship and marriage in his now celebrated photographs of O’Keeffe. These photos were taken over the course of twenty years. O’Keeffe was then a new member of what was known as the Stieglitz circle. This allowed her to associate with some of Americas early and distinguished Modern painters- such as Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, John Marin and even some photographers such as Edward Steichen and Paul Strand, as well as many powerful art writers and critics. It was meeting these up and coming artists that really helped to authenticate and influence her own …show more content…

In response to all of this turmoil, she decided to take her first extended trip to New Mexico in 1929. This was a visit that has a very big imprint on her life that would follow her throughout her days. This trip also caused an immediate affect on her works of art. It was over the next twenty years (1929-1949) that she would continue to return to New Mexico even turning the visits into annual trips. Sometimes she would stay for up to six months in New Mexico only returning to New York during the winter to display her artwork in the Stieglitz gallery. She would continue to make these annual trips, back and forth, until 1949 when she moved to New Mexico

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