Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 18 Georgia O'Keeffe Questions: |
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the United States' earliest abstract painters. A Wisconsin native, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students League and Columbia University in New York. In 1916 a friend showed some of her abstract watercolors and charcoal drawings to Alfred Stieglitz, photographer and gallery owner. Excited by her work, Stieglitz gave O'Keeffe her first exhibition at his AVANT-GARDE gallery 291 in New York City.
During the 1920s, O'Keeffe lived in New York City in a
high-rise apartment in the Shelton Hotel. She made a series
of paintings about the city, which she found vital but
draining. The subjects of these city paintings marked a
departure from the large-scale closeup views of flowers and
leaves she had been painting.
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