Georgia O'Keefe

Georgia O'Keefe was born on 1887 and she died on 1986. She grew up in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She spent a few years working as a commercial artist in Chicago. Then she went to Texas to teach art. She married Alfred Stieglitg a famous photographer. He saw how talented she was and gave Georgia her first exhibition. O'Keefe paintings are realistic and abstract at the same time. She painted images of flowers, mountains, and skyscrapers. By the time she died in 1986 at the age of 99, she was recognized as the greatest American woman artist of the century. Then she moved to Mexico to paint her paintings.

1998, Donny, third grade

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