Georgia O'Keefee

Georgia Totto O’Keffee was born November 15^th, 1887. She was born in Wisconsin. Her parents Francis and Ida were both dairy farmers. Georgia had six siblings. She had decided what she wanted to do with her life by the time she was ten. She wanted to become an artist. She took art classes from a local woman named Sara Mann. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from in 1905- 06. Then in 1907, she went to the Art Students League in New York City. In 1908, she won a large prize for an oil painting called Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot. She painted a lot using water colors as well. She actually took a break from painting for four years kind of just to take time to find herself. In 1912 she began again.

O’keeffee did all kinds of art. Most of it from what I found seemed to be of flowers or nature. She used a lot of water color and oil paints but she also used charcoal. She had many exhibits and there is a museum in her name. O’Keefee married an artist as well, just a photographer instead of a painter. He took many images of Georgia. Georgia was extremely influential in the art world.