2. BIOGRAPHY
She was born the
15th of November of
1887 in Wisconsin
(UnitedStates of
America)
She diedthe 6th of
Marchof 1986
3. • O’ Keeffe was the second of seven
children and the first daughter.
• When she was ten she decided to be an
artist.
4. • She studied at
the School of
the Art Institute
of Chicago from
1905 to 1906.
• She won a prize
for her oil
painting Dead
Rabbit with
Copper Pot.
5. • Georgia abandoned the
idea of a career as an
artist in 1908. She did
not paint for four years.
• She was inspired to paint
again in 1912, inspired by
the ideas of Arthur
Wesley Dow using line,
color and shades.
6. • She became an art teacher from
1913 to 1918 in Texas.
In 1916, the photograph
Alfred Stieglitz (who
become her husband at
1924) was interested in
her abstract drawings. A
year later, an exhibition
of her paintings took
place
7. • Her most famous paintings
are about big flowers, as if
they were seen from closed-
up. She also painted cow
skulls.
• Georgia and Alfred went to
México for the first time at
1929, and she found a
beautiful place with inspiring
landscapes.
• She started adding sky and clouds items at her
paintings around 1960.
8. • Georgia painted around 268 drawings through
all her life.
“I realized that I could say things with color and
shapes that I could not say any other way, things that
had no words” said Georgia.
