Gerogia Okeeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in November 15, 1887 and died in March 6, 1986. She was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, UnitedStates. O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. Several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities. She madelarge-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens.
Beginning in 1929, when she first began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico.Which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subject’s specific to that area. Georgia O'Keeffe began to search for her own style. She used only charcoal, the black material made fromburned wood. In her book about her life, she wrote that she decided to limit herself to charcoal until she found she really needed color to do what she needed to do. She wrote that six months later shefound she needed the color blue. She used it for a watercolor painting she called "Blue Lines."
O'Keeffe studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906. She took a job inChicago as a commercial artist. She did not paint for four years. She said that the smell of turpentine made her sick. O'Keeffe abandoned the idea of pursuing a career as an artist in the fall of 1908.She was inspired to paint again in 1912. Early in 1916, Anita Pollitzer took some of the charcoal drawings O'Keeffe had made in the fall of 1915, which she had mailed to Pollitzer from South Carolina,to Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 gallery. He told Pollitzer that the drawings were the "purest, finest, sincerest things that had entered 291 in a long while", and that he would like to show them. InApril 1916, he exhibited ten of her drawings at 291.
Although O'Keeffe knew that Stieglitz was planning to exhibit her work, he had not told her when, and she was surprised to learn that her work was...