1. GEORGIA O’ KEEFFE

2. Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in a
farmhouse near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin (USA)

3. By age ten she had decided to become an artist.
She loved painting and drawing.

4. O'Keeffe studied at the School of Art Institute of
Chicago and at the Art Students League in New York.

5. Her earlier work was mostly abstract.
ANYTHING
(Red and green trees), 1916
BLUE II (1916)

6. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms…
Calla Lily (1923) Petunia N.2 (1924)

7. …and New York buildings
New York with Moon (1925) Radiator Building (1927)

8. Between 1929 and 1949, O'Keeffe spent part of the
year working in New Mexico
My front Yard (1941)

9. After 1949 she lived in New Mexico where she collected
rocks and bones from the desert floor and made them
subjects in her work.
Red hills with bones (1941)

10. She moved to Santa Fe in 1984, where she died on
March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.

11. ABSTRACTION

12. Evening star (1917)

13. Red, yellow and black streak journal (1924)

14. Above the clouds (1962)

15. Red wave with circle (1979)

16. ARCHITECTURE

17. Church Bell ( 1917)

18. New York with moon (1925)

19. Radiator Building
(1927)

20. Ranchos Church(1929)

21. In the patio VII (1940)

22. Cebolla Church (1945)

23. In the patio (1946)

24. Patio door with green leave (1956)

25. FLOWERS AND TREES

26. Blue flower(1918)

27. Autumn Trees (1921)

28. Autumn leaves (1924)

29. Maple leaves in autumn (1925)

30. Petunias (1925)

31. Oriental Poppies (1928)

32. Jimson weed (1932)

33. Red hills with flowers (1937)

34. Red Amarilis (1937)

35. LANDSCAPES AND BONES

36. Lake George in autumn (1927)

37. Black Mesa landscape (1930)

38. Hollyhock pink with Pedernal (1937)

39. Red hill with white shell (1938)

40. From the plains (1954)

41. Deer skull with Pedernal (1936)

42. Pelvis with blue (1944)

43. Goat horn with red (1945)

44. GEORGIA O' KEEFFE (1.887 – 1986)