2. Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in a
farmhouse near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (USA)
3. By age ten she had decided to become an artist.
She loved painting and drawing.
4. O'Keeffe studied at the School of Art Institute of
Chicago and at the Art Students League in New York.
5. Her earlier work was mostly abstract.
ANYTHING
(Red and green trees), 1916
BLUE II (1916)
6. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms…
Calla Lily (1923) Petunia N.2 (1924)
7. …and New York buildings
New York with Moon (1925) Radiator Building (1927)
8. Between 1929 and 1949, O'Keeffe spent part of the
year working in New Mexico
My front Yard (1941)
9. After 1949 she lived in New Mexico where she collected
rocks and bones from the desert floor and made them
subjects in her work.
Red hills with bones (1941)
10. She moved to Santa Fe in 1984, where she died on
March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.