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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887.
When Georgia O'keeffe was in the eighth grade she was asked what she was going to do when she grew up. Georgia replied very definitely...
"...I am going to be an artist!"--"I don't really know where I got my artist idea...I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind."
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At times she would work intensely, and at other times she would not work for days. When it was brought to the attention of the principal, she would reply..."When the spirit moves Georgia, she can do more in a day than you can do in a week"
After receiving her diploma in 1905 she for left Chicago to live with an aunt and attend the Art Institute of Chicago. She did not return to the Institute the following year after a bout with Typhoid Fever. Instead, in 1907 she enrolled at the Art Student League in New York City.
She moved back to her family in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1909 and later enrolled at a nearby college. In 1912 a friend in Texas wrote that a teaching position was open in Amarillo, Texas for a "drawing supervisor". Georgia applied for the position and was hired for the fall semester.
After resigning her job in Amarillo, Georgia moved to New York City to attend Columbia Teachers College until accepting a teaching position at Columbia College in South Carolina. Having a light schedule, she felt it would be an ideal position that would give her time to paint. Here she was to strip away what she had been taught to paint and began to paint as she felt.
"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me...shapes and ideas so near to me...so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down..."
Georgia O'keeffe had 5 years of private art lessons at various schools in Wiscon-sin & Virginia by 16. One teacher, encouraged her to work at her own pace and afforded her opportunities that the other students felt unfair.
He told Anita the drawings were the "purest, finest, sincerest things that had entered 291 in a long while.", and that he would like to show them. O"keeffe had first visited 291 in 1908, and later on several occasions, but had never talked with Stieglitz...although she had high regard for his opinions as a critic. "I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something...anything I had done...than anyone else I know of..."
acquaintance. Georgia O'keeffe confronted Stieglitz for the first time over the drawings...later agreeing to let them hang.
She would often make trips to the nearby Palo Duro Canyon, hiking down the steep slopes to observe the sandstone formations with white gypsum, and orange mudstone above the rich green canyon floor. At least 50 watercolors were painted during the time spent in Canyon, Texas.
Some of Georgia's drawings were taken to Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery. He was to exclaim, "At last,
a woman on paper!".
In April Stieglitz exhibited 10 of her drawings. She had not been consulted before the exhibit and only learned about it through an
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O'keeffe's Art, included flowers, floral themes, and the Southwest. Simplicity of form and color is rendered in floral arrangements, skulls, flower groupings and other floral subjects.
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Georgia's first solo show opened at 291 in April 1917. Most of the exhibit were the watercolors from Texas. After the show Stieglitz decided to close 291 due to financial difficulties but said, "Well I'm through...but I have given the world a woman."
O'keeffe was encouraged by Stieglitz to return to New York. By this time he had fallen in love with Georgia and wanted to pursue a relationship. He being in an unhappy marriage, had moved out from the family home and into his studio. O'keeffee boarded a train in June of 1918 to return to New York and Stieglitz...and to a new life that would make her into one of the most important artist of the century.
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