Georgia OKeeffe American Artist

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Georgia OKeeffeAmerican Artist

• 1887-1986

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Background

• Georgia OKeeffe was born on November 15, 1887 in
  Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She grew up in a farming
  family in Sun Prairie, and in Williamsburg,
  Virginia.
• She graduated from Chatham Protestant Episcopal
  Institute in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1904. She
  then studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago,
  and the Art Students League in New York.

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Biography

• OKeeffe has been a major part figure in American
  art since the 1920s. She in chiefly known for
  paintings in which she synthesized abstraction
  and representation in paintings of flowers,
  rocks, shells, animal bones, and landscapes.
• Her paintings present crisply contoured forms
  with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors.

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Georgia OKeeffe

• In 1908 OKeeffe was discouraged from her work
  and did not pick up a paint brush. She worked as
  a commercial artist in Chicago. She then became
  an elementary school art teacher near Amarillo,
  Texas.
• In 1912 see attended summer classes at the
  University if Virginia, and was inspired to paint
  again.

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Georgia OKeeffe

• Her artistic brilliance revolutionized modern art
  in both her time and in the present. In her
  paintings she portrayed the power of emotion of
  objects in nature. This was first seen in her
  charcoal drawing of silhouette bud-like forms No.
  13 Special 1916/1917 which brought her to fame.

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Georgia OKeeffe

• By the mid 1920s OKeeffe began making large
  scale paintings of natural forms at close range,
  as if seen through a magnifying glass.
• Nobody has seen a flowerreally it is so
  smallwe havent timeand to see one takes time
  Ill paint it big and they will be surprised in
  taking time to look at it. -
  Georgia OKeeffe

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Georgia OKeeffe

• In 1924 she painted her first large-scale flower
  painting Petunia, No. 2.
• OKeeffe became known as one of Americas most
  important artists.

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Georgia OKeeffe

• In 1928 six of her calla lily paintings sold for
  25,000.00. dollars. This was the most money ever
  paid for a group of paintings by a living
  American artist.
• Calla Lily Turned Away, 1923

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• Oriental Poppies, 1928

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• The Shell, 1934
  
  
• Jack-in-Pulpit No. 2, 1930

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New Mexico

• In 1928, Georgia moved part time to New Mexico in
  order to find new things to paint.
• Here she began collecting and painting bones, and
  started painting the areas distinctive
  architectural and landscape forms.
• Rams Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, 1935

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• Waterfall No. III, Iao Valley 1939
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  The Broken Shell,1937

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New Mexico

• In 1936, Summer Days was completed. It has
  become one of her most famous and well-known
  works.

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• In 1949 OKeeffe moved to New Mexico permanently.
  During the 1950s she produced a series of
  paintings featuring architectural forms.

• Patio With Black Door, 1955

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Accomplishments

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and
  Letters
• First retrospective show of a womans art at the
  Museum of Modern Art
• Awarded the Gold Metal of Painting by the
  National Institute of Arts and Letters
• Awarded the Metal of Freedom, the nations
  highest civilian honor
• President Ronald Reagan presented the National
  Metal of Arts in 1985.

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Georgia OKeeffe

• In 1971 OKeeffes eyesight began to fail. She
  stopped painting in 1972.
• Georgia moved to Santa Fe where she died on March
  6, 1986.
• A substantial part of OKeeffes estate went to
  the Georgia OKeeffe Museum established in 1997
  in Santa Fe.
• In 1998 the Georgia OKeeffe Home and Studio was
  designated a National Historic Landmark.

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Resources

• http//www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/okee-geo.htm

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
http//www.artst.org/okeefe/page/11/
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