Georgia O'Keeffe was an American artist born in 1887 in Wisconsin. She studied art in Chicago in the early 1900s and won a prize for one of her paintings, but abandoned her career for several years before being inspired to paint again in 1912. In the 1910s and 1920s, she taught art in Texas and had her first solo exhibitions, gaining recognition. She is renowned for her large-scale paintings of flowers, cow skulls, and New Mexico landscapes, seen from abstract, close-up perspectives. O'Keeffe lived until 1986, producing hundreds of paintings throughout her long career.

1. Let’s know about …
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

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.

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