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    Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks
    Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks
    Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks
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    Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks

    By Janet Souter

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    In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art instruction originally conceived by Arthur Wesley Dow. In Bement’s class, the students did not mechanically copy nature, but instead were taught the principles of design using geometric shapes. They worked at exercises that included dividing a square, working within a circle and placing a rectangle around a drawing, then organising the composition by rearranging, adding or eliminating elements. It sounded dull and to most students it was. But Georgia found that these studies gave art its structure and helped her understand the basics of abstraction. During the 1920s O’Keeffe also produced a huge number of landscapes and botanical studies during annual trips to Lake George. With Stieglitz’s connections in the arts community of New York – from 1923 he organised an O’Keeffe exhibition annually – O’Keeffe’s work received a great deal of attention and commanded high prices. She, however, resented the sexual connotations people attached to her paintings, especially during the 1920s when Freudian theories became a form of what today might be termed “pop psychology”. The legacy she left behind is a unique vision that translates the complexity of nature into simple shapes for us to explore and make our own discoveries. She taught us there is poetry in nature and beauty in geometry. Georgia O’Keeffe’s long lifetime of work shows us new ways to see the world, from her eyes to ours.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateNov 14, 2023
    ISBN9781781608593
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      A short biographical overview of Georgia O'Keeffe's life coupled with her art while interspersed with details of each work being depicted on the page. A great weave of two threads - her life & her work.

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    Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks - Janet Souter

    Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe

    Biography

    1887:

    Georgia O’Keeffe is born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, the second of seven children of Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O’Keeffe.

    1902:

    The family moves to Virginia. She attends art classes for five years.

    1905-1906:

    Georgia studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.

    1907-1908:

    She studies at the Art Students League School in New York.

    1908:

    She wins the League’s William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her painting Untitled (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot).

    1908-1910:

    She temporarily abandons painting to devote herself to a career as a commercial artist, painting mainly for advertisements.

    1912:

    She teaches art at Amarillo (in Texas) and at the University of Virginia.

    1915:

    She teaches art at Columbia College in South Carolina. At the same time, whilst waiting to discover her own personal style, she begins painting abstracts in charcoal.

    1916:

    She sends these paintings to a friend, Anita Pollitzer who shows them to the renowned Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia returns to New York to teach at Teachers College.

    1917:

    Her first exhibition opens in April at the Alfred Stieglitz Gallery in Chicago.

    1918:

    Alfred Stieglitz offers her financial help, allowing her to paint for a year in New York. She begins to paint her flowers, still the most famous of her works today.

    1918-1929:

    Her interest in oil-painting grows; she creates abstract works, especially landscapes and still-lifes.

    1923:

    From 1923, and up to his death, Alfred Stieglitz works assiduously to promote O’Keeffe and her work, organizing annual exhibitions at the Anderson Gallery (from 1923 to 1925), at the Intimate Gallery (from 1925 to 1929) and at the American Place (from 1929 to 1946).

    1924:

    Marriage of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.

    1925:

    They move into the Shelton Hotel in New York where they will live for twelve years. The apartment, situated on the thirtieth floor of the building, offers an unrestricted view of New York which Georgia paints numerous times.

    1927:

    An exhibition is dedicated to her at the Brooklyn Museum.

    1928:

    She sells six paintings representing lilies for a record price of $25,000 which brings her to the foreground of public attention. However, Georgia O’Keeffe feels the need again to travel to find new sources of inspiration for her painting.

    1929:

    She leaves to go East, to Taos in New Mexico. This journey will change her life; she discovers a landscape of austere beauty and infinite space. She visits and paints the mountains and the deserts of the region as well as the historical Ranchos mission church in Taos. She returns every summer to her country up until the death of Stieglitz.

    1930-1931:

    She creates her first works representing skeletons.

    1933:

    She is hospitalized in New York for nervous exhaustion.

    1934:

    Georgia visits the Ghost Ranch for the first time and knows immediately that it is there that she wants to live.

    1943:

    Big exhibition of her works at the Art Institute of Chicago.

    1945:

    She buys an abandoned farm property in Abiguiu village, near Ghost Ranch.

    1946:

    An exhibition is dedicated to her at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; she is the first female artist to have the honour of an exhibition in this museum. Alfred Stieglitz dies July

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