Georgia O'Keeffe

Where/when:

Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

Medium(s):

• Charcoal

• Oil paint

• Watercolors

Impact:

“I will make even busy New Yorkerstake time to see what I see of flowers.”

Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe was an artist who innovatively fused abstraction and representation in paintings, works on paper, and sculptures to express an emotional "equivalent" for the world around her.

Determined to become an artist from a young age, in 1905, O'Keeffe attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She then enrolled in the Art Students League of New York in 1907, becoming acquainted with American and European modern art trends through visits to photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz's gallery known as "291." Trained in realist painting, in 1908, O'Keeffe worked as a freelance commercial artist in Chicago, and in 1911, she started teaching art in Charlottesville, Virginia.

-https://americanart.si.edu/artist/georgia-okeeffe-3597

Project/activities:

• Use a magnifying glass (or a viewfinder made from paper) to focus on details of objects around you. Create a work that is abstract,

Gallery:

Georgia O’Keeffe. Pink Tulip, 1925. Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 12 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Muse

Abstraction Blue 1927

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV 1930

The Shell 1934

Georgia O'Keeffe, Yellow Calla, 1926, oil on fiberboard, 9 x 12 3/4 in. (22.9 x 32.4 cm), Smithsonia

Georgia O'Keeffe, Hibiscus with Plumeria, 1939, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm), Smiths

Georgia O'Keeffe, Manhattan, 1932, oil on canvas, 84 3/8 x 48 1/4 in. (214.3 x 122.4 cm.), Smithsoni

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More resources:

https://collections.okeeffemuseum.org/object/?subq=gok