Interesting Facts about Georgia O’Keeffe

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Georgia Totto O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She was 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”

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Interesting Facts

• Flower paintings make up a small percentage of o’keeffe’s body of work.

Though O’Keeffe is most famous for her lovingly rendered close-ups of flowers—like Black Iris and Oriental Poppies—these make up just about 200 of her 2000-plus paintings. The rest primarily depict landscapes, leaves, rocks, shells, and bones.

• Georgia was not a native of the american southwest.

O’Keeffe was actually born on a Wisconsin dairy farm. She’d go on to live in Chicago; New York City; New York’s Lake George; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Amarillo, Texas. She first visited New Mexico in 1917, and as she grew older, her trips there became more and more frequent. Following the death of her husband in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently.

• O’keeffe also painted skyscrapers.

While nature was her main source of inspiration, the time she spent in 1920s Manhattan spurred the creation of surreal efforts like New York With Moon, City Night and The Shelton with Sunspots.

• She served as a muse to other artists.

Thanks in part to Stieglitz, O’Keeffe was one of the most photographed women of the 20th century. Stieglitz made O’Keeffe the subject of a long-term series of portraits meant to capture individuals as they aged, and she made for a striking model.

• She quit painting three times.

The first break spanned several years (the exact number is a matter of debate), when O’Keeffe took on more stable jobs to help her family through financial troubles. In the early 1930s, a nervous breakdown led to her hospitalization, and caused her to set aside her brushes for more than a year.

In the years leading up to her death in 1986, failing eyesight forced O’Keeffe to give up painting entirely.

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