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Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe. Revolutionary female painter of the 20 th century. Young Years. O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887 O’Keeffe had private art lessons from the age of 11 She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an artist. Education.

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Georgia O’Keeffe

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  1. Georgia O’Keeffe Revolutionary female painter of the 20th century

  2. Young Years • O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887 • O’Keeffe had private art lessons from the age of 11 • She knew from a young age that she wanted to be an artist

  3. Education • O’Keeffe came from a well-to-do family that stressed the importance of education, even for females • She attended the Art Institute in Chicago, the Arts Student League in NY, and finally Columbia Teacher’s College also in NY

  4. First Jobs and Exhibits • O’Keeffe worked briefly as a commercial artist in Chicago • She took teaching positions in Texas, Virginia, and South Carolina • The first public showing of her work was in 1908 at Alfred Stieglitz’s 291 gallery in NY • Her first solo show was in 1917, also at 291 gallery

  5. Love and Art • In 1918 she moved to New York to live with (and eventually marry) Stieglitz and pursue a career as a full time artist

  6. Influences and Inspirations • O’Keeffe seemed to be unaffected by the changes going on in the world around her as far as her artwork was concerned • She was, however, influenced by the scenery of her different living environments

  7. While she was living in New York her paintings reflected the skyline (Shown: City Night, 1926) • Her visits to their summer home at Lake George strongly influenced her work with the beginning of her scenes of nature (Shown: Old Maple, Lake George, 1926)

  8. It was during her winter months in New York that O’Keeffe started painting giant flowers. (Shown: Iris, 1929; White Trumpet Flower, 1932) • "Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." –Georgia O’Keeffe

  9. In 1929 O’Keeffe grew restless of city life and traveled for the first time to New Mexico. • She fell in love with the beauty of the desert and returned there every summer til Stieglitz’s death in 1946, when she moved there permanently • Shown: Cow’s Skull-Red, White, and Blue, 1930; Fragment of the Ranchos de Taos Church, 1929

  10. Individualistic Style • Throughout her entire artistic career O’Keeffe maintained a unique style to her paintings and drawings • Her representational works used such linear quality, bold coloring, and enlarged proportions that they bordered on abstract art • She used colors and lines to express her feelings towards and surrounding the subject not just to paint as everyone else sees it • She truly understood what it meant to explore and examine a subject matter, even one as simple as a flower

  11. The Radiator Building at Night • Oil on canvas • 1927, New York

  12. Two Calla Lilies on Pink • Oil on canvas • 1928

  13. Light Iris • Oil on Canvas • 1924

  14. Jack in the Pulpit • Oil on canvas • 1930

  15. Blue Flower • 1918

  16. Works Cited • http://ellensplace.net/okeeffe1.html • http://www.artchive.com/artchive/O/okeefe.html • http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/okeeffe/

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