Aziz Art June 2016

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
(November 15, 1887 – March 6,
1986) was an American artist.
She is best known for her
paintings of enlarged flowers,
New York skyscrapers, and New
Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has
been recognized as the
"Mother of American
modernism".
Early life and education
Georgia O'Keeffe as a teaching
assistant to Alon Bement at the
University of Virginia in 1915
Georgia O'Keeffe was born on
November 15, 1887 in
a farmhouse located
at 2405 Hwy T in the town of Sun
Prairie, Wisconsin.Her parents,
Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida
(Totto) O'Keeffe, were dairy
farmers. Her father was of Irish
descent. Her maternal
grandfather George Victor Totto,
for whom O'Keeffe was named,
was a Hungarian count who came
to America in 1848.
O'Keeffe was the second
of seven children and the first
daughter.
She attended Town Hall School in
Sun Prairie.By age ten she had
decided to become an artist,and
she and her sister received art
instruction from local
watercolorist Sara Mann. O'Keeffe
attended high school at Sacred
Heart Academy in Madison,
Wisconsin as a boarder between
1901 and 1902. In late 1902, the
O'Keeffes moved from Wisconsin
to the close-knit neighborhood of
Peacock Hill in Williamsburg,
Virginia. O'Keeffe stayed in
Wisconsin with her aunt and
attended Madison High School,
then joined her family in Virginia
in 1903. She completed high
school as a boarder at Chatham
Episcopal Institute in Virginia (now
Chatham Hall) and graduated in
1905. She was a member of the
Kappa Delta sorority.
O'Keeffe studied at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago from
1905 to 1906.In 1907, she
attended the Art Students League
in New York City, where she
studied under William Merritt
Chase.
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