Georgia O Keeeffe Thesis

Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keefe was a famous woman in the United States of America. She was famous for her work as an artist. Georgia O'Keeffe was born in the late nineteenth century, a time when the women's rights movement was occurring. This was a time when women were fighting for equal suffrage. Suffrage means the right to vote. After a long journey of fighting and educating, the Nineteenth Amendment of The United States Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in 1920. The amendment gave the 32 year old Georgia O’Keeffe the ability to vote for the first time. Georgia O’Keeffe was not always 32 years old. She was born on a November day in Wisconsin.

Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on November 15, in the year 1887. Out of her family,

She traveled there in 1929. She made many famous works there, such as the Black Cross and New Mexico in 1929. In the 1940’s O’Keeffe’s work was celebrated both at the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Georgia O’Keeffe had spent most of her time in New Mexico, living and working there. In New York, her husband Alfred Stieglitz had an affair with Dorothy Norman. Later, in 1946, at 82 years of age, Alfred Stieglitz had died of a stroke. Three years after his death, O’Keeffe had declared to permanently live in New Mexico. Before she completely settled down, she wanted to travel the

Her last unassisted work was done in 1972. She did not want to stop creating though. O’Keeffe had worked from her imagination from there on. She also wrote an autobiography with the help of her assistants. Earlier, O’Keeffe had hired a potter named Juan Hamilton.Back then, he helped Georgia O’Keeffe create pottery. He then went on to become a live-in assistant, then finally a helper. Juan Hamilton had served O’Keeffe for thirteen years. He had inherited her estate after she died. In 1977, she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Gerald Ford. Later on in 1985, she was given the Nation Medal of Arts. She lived at Ghost Ranch until she died at Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 6, 1986.

Georgia O’Keeffe is known today because of her presence of the modernism movement in art. Her life and legacy is remembered by a dedicated museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico called the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. She had was one of the first women to be accepted as a fine artist because of her strong images and emotional