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[[Image:O'Keefe.jpg|100px|left|Portrait of Georgia O'keefe in 1918, by Alfred Steiglitz]] | [[Image:O'Keefe.jpg|100px|left|Portrait of Georgia O'keefe in 1918, by Alfred Steiglitz]] | ||
'''Georgia O'Keeffe''' (Sun Prairie, [[Wisconsin]] 1887 - [[Santa Fe]], | '''Georgia O'Keeffe''' (Sun Prairie, [[Wisconsin]] 1887 - [[Santa Fe]], | ||
| − | [[New Mexico]] 1986) was an American modernist [[painter]]. She studied at the Art Institute of [[Chicago]] and the Art Students League in [[New York]]. Georgia's first solo show opened at 291 in April 1917. Most of the exhibit were the watercolors from Texas. <ref> [http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe2.html Georgia O'Keeffe.]</ref> | + | [[New Mexico]] 1986) was an American modernist [[painter]]. She studied at the Art Institute of [[Chicago]] and the Art Students League in [[New York]]. Georgia's first solo show opened at 291 in April 1917. Most of the exhibit were the watercolors from Texas.<ref>[http://www.ellensplace.net/okeeffe2.html Georgia O'Keeffe.]</ref> |
| − | Georgia O’Keeffe was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.” She was a leading member of one of the avant-garde [[art]] movements that blossomed in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. O’Keeffe’s images—often instantly recognizable as her own —include large-scale flowers, New York cityscapes, animal bones, and the high deserts and dramatic cliffs of her beloved New Mexico. <ref> [http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/visit/about_museum.html About The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum] </ref> | + | Georgia O’Keeffe was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.” She was a leading member of one of the avant-garde [[art]] movements that blossomed in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. O’Keeffe’s images—often instantly recognizable as her own —include large-scale flowers, New York cityscapes, animal bones, and the high deserts and dramatic cliffs of her beloved New Mexico.<ref>[http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/visit/about_museum.html About The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum]</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:34, July 12, 2016
Georgia O'Keeffe (Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887 - Santa Fe, New Mexico 1986) was an American modernist painter. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. Georgia's first solo show opened at 291 in April 1917. Most of the exhibit were the watercolors from Texas.[1]
Georgia O’Keeffe was devoted to creating imagery that expressed what she called “the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.” She was a leading member of one of the avant-garde art movements that blossomed in New York in the 1910s and 1920s. O’Keeffe’s images—often instantly recognizable as her own —include large-scale flowers, New York cityscapes, animal bones, and the high deserts and dramatic cliffs of her beloved New Mexico.[2]
- I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Gallery
"Grapes on White Dish"
"Street-Moon"
"Ram's Head, White Hollyhock and Little Hills"
"Red Poppy"
"Oriental Poppies"
Hernandez New Mexico
See also
External links
- Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
- Georgia O'Keeffe Encyclopædia Britannica.
- Georgia O'Keeffe Gallery
- Georgia O'Keeffe Biography