Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O’Keeffe:
A History and Art Analysis
Intro to Art
Instructor: Catherine Blackburn
June 20, 2013
History of the Artist On November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin an artist by the name of Georgia O’Keeffe was born, the second of seven children. Her family members were famers and she grew up not only in Sun Prairie, but also Williamsburg, Virginia. Even as a child, she knew she wanted to be an artist. Georgia and her sister received in home art lessons from a local watercolorist named Sarah Mann. After graduating in 1904 in Virginia, O’Keeffe attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. In 1908, O’Keeffe decided to abandon her dreams of becoming an artist, feeling she could not be successful and began working with commercial art in Chicago. After a four year break from painting, she was inspired again in 1912, by the ideas of Arthur Dow. She was introduced to his innovative ideas of shape and line in a summer class at the University of Virginia. O’Keeffe went on to teach in public schools in Texas and then went on to attend college at Columbia University in 1914-1915. Here she had classes from Dow, who influenced her artworks. In the 1920’s Georgia experimented with showing the raw beauty of flowers in unique form, different than what anyone else had portrayed. In 1924 Georgia married famous photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. Alfred owned a New York art gallery called “291.” Her charcoal drawings were first featured here in 1916, after she sent her work to a former class mate of hers, who passed it along to Stieglitz. Although Alfred was much older than O’Keeffe the marriage lasted over 20 years, up until his death in 1946. Animal bones are seen in her works from the 1930’s and 1940’s, in that time she created many works illustrating the beauty of the vast desert. In 1949, she moved to New Mexico permanently where she created many works of art inspired by the landscape. In 1962 she was elected as a member of
A History and Art Analysis
Intro to Art
Instructor: Catherine Blackburn
June 20, 2013
History of the Artist On November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin an artist by the name of Georgia O’Keeffe was born, the second of seven children. Her family members were famers and she grew up not only in Sun Prairie, but also Williamsburg, Virginia. Even as a child, she knew she wanted to be an artist. Georgia and her sister received in home art lessons from a local watercolorist named Sarah Mann. After graduating in 1904 in Virginia, O’Keeffe attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. In 1908, O’Keeffe decided to abandon her dreams of becoming an artist, feeling she could not be successful and began working with commercial art in Chicago. After a four year break from painting, she was inspired again in 1912, by the ideas of Arthur Dow. She was introduced to his innovative ideas of shape and line in a summer class at the University of Virginia. O’Keeffe went on to teach in public schools in Texas and then went on to attend college at Columbia University in 1914-1915. Here she had classes from Dow, who influenced her artworks. In the 1920’s Georgia experimented with showing the raw beauty of flowers in unique form, different than what anyone else had portrayed. In 1924 Georgia married famous photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. Alfred owned a New York art gallery called “291.” Her charcoal drawings were first featured here in 1916, after she sent her work to a former class mate of hers, who passed it along to Stieglitz. Although Alfred was much older than O’Keeffe the marriage lasted over 20 years, up until his death in 1946. Animal bones are seen in her works from the 1930’s and 1940’s, in that time she created many works illustrating the beauty of the vast desert. In 1949, she moved to New Mexico permanently where she created many works of art inspired by the landscape. In 1962 she was elected as a member of