Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986) was an American oil
painting artist. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art
since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for oil paintings in which
she synthesizes abstraction and representation in paintings of
flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her oil
paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with
subtle tonal transitions of varying colors, and she often
transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
Born and raised in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Georgia O'Keeffe became
one of the first American modernists, the first woman to gain
recognition for that style, and a signature painter of Southwest
landscape and structures.
She went to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905-06 and studied
with John Vanderpoel. She then attended the Art Students League in
New York under William Merritt Chase, Kenyon Cox, and F. Luis Mora.
At this time in New York, she first became aware of modernist.
During the 1920s, O'Keeffe made both natural and architectural
forms the subject of her work. She painted her first large-scale
flower painting in 1924, Petunia, No. 2,, which was first exhibited
in 1925, and completed a significant body of oil paintings of New
York buildings, such as City Night, and New York--Night, 1926, and
Radiator Bldg--Night, New York, 1927.
Beginning in 1923, Stieglitz organized exhibitions of O'Keeffe's
work annually, and by the mid-1920s, she had become known as one of
America's most important artists. Her work commanded high prices;
in 1928 six of her calla lily paintings sold for $25,000 US
dollars, which was at the time, the largest sum ever paid for a
group of paintings by a living American artist.
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