LIGHT IRIS
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LIGHT IRIS
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Georgia O'Keeffe was born on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She knew from the time she was a young girl she wanted to be an artist. Her parents encouraged her interest and gave her lessons. She was one of seven children in the family, and the education of their children was important to her parents. Her mother had been educated in the East.
The family moved to Virginia, and Georgia took private art lessons for several years. When she was eighteen years old she went to live with her aunt and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. Next she returned to her family in Virginia.
She worked for a while as a commercial artist, then a friend told her about a job in Amarillo, Texas which she accepted, and she became an art supervisor in the public schools. She worked there for two years and in the summers taught art at the University of Virginia.
Her friend, Anita Pollitzer sent some of her charcoal drawings to a photographer, Alfred Stieglitz, who had a gallery called the 291 Gallery in New York. Stieglitz was impressed with her work, and without her knowledge exhibited ten of the drawings. She was quite upset when she found out he had exhibited them with asking for her permission to do so. She went to talk to him and agreed to give him permission. This visit also began a relationship which would later result in their marriage.
At one time she taught art at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. (The college was later called West Texas State Teachers College and now is West Texas A&M University.) The college is near the beautiful Palo Dura Canyon where Georgia did at least 50 watercolor paintings.
Georgia O'Keeffe is famous for her paintings of flowers. She made them very large so they filled the whole canvas. She painted many kinds of flowers. You may have seen her pictures of poppies and irises such as the one featured on this page.
Georgia O'Keeffe
She loved New Mexico. The scenes of New Mexico and the bleached cow bones she found there became the subject of several works such as Horse's Skull on Blue . After her husband died she moved to New Mexico and spent the rest of her life there. Her eyesight became poor in later years, and when she could no longer paint pictures in oil, she began to work with drawing pencils, watercolor, and clay. She died at the age of 98.
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Abstract Flowers Inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe
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Light Iris 1924
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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