Georgia O'Keeffe

(1887-1986)

Was born in Wisconsin and trained in Chicago and New York, and taught in Texas and Virginia until 1918. About 1916 Georgia O’Keeffe began to make abstract drawings, influenced by Mexican children's art and by the desolate landscape of the Texas Panhandle, when the dealer Stieglitz (whom she married in 1924) recognized her talents. Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstractions are based on landscapes and natural forms in the American South-West; buildings, plants and bones found in the deserts of New Mexico.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s famous oil paintings include:

• Inside Red Canna
• From the Faraway Nearby
• Red Hills and Bones
• Black Cross, New Mexico
• The Mountain, New Mexico
• The Ranchos de Taos Church
• Front of Ranchos Church
• Street, New York No.1
• Red Canna
• Red, Yellow and Black Streak
• New York Street with Moon
• Petunias
• Yellow Leaves
• Birch and Pine Tree No.2
• Lake George Autumn
• Calla Lilies on Pink
• A Sunflower from Maggie
• The Radiator Building-Night, New York