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ART & DESIGN
O’KeGeoergiaffe
PIONEER OF 20TH CENTURY ART | AMERICAN ICON | TRAILBLAZER
G eorgia O’Keeffe is renowned ideas. In 1915 she began a series of abstract American modernist movement as well as her
internationally for her bold charcoal drawings that represented a radical enlarged flowers.
innovative art. Her distinctive break with tradition and made O’Keeffe one O'Keeffe passed on in 1986 in Santa Fe, New
flowers, dramatic cityscapes, of the first American artists to practice pure Mexico. Her ashes were scattered at Cerro
glowing landscapes, and images of animal abstraction. Pedernal, a landscape featured in several of her
bones against the stark desert sky are her Alfred Stieglitz, art dealer and eminent paintings. Her works can be found on exhibit
pivotal contribution to American Modernist photographer, was the first to exhibit her at museums around the world. The Georgia
expression. work the following year. He would eventually O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico is
become her husband. By the mid-1920s dedicated to preserving her art and legacy and
Born in Wisconsin in 1887, she studied at the O’Keeffe was recognized as one of America’s offers tours of her home and studio which is a
Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students most important and successful artists national historic landmark.
League in New York. Throughout her artistic distinguished by her paintings of New York
journey she sought to find a personal visual skyscrapers; quintessential images of the
language in which to express her feelings and
Photos Courtesy Of: Georgia O’ Keeffe
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