American Artist

Georgia is known for her paintings of huge flowers, NY skyscrapers, expansive New Mexican landscapes, and abstracts inspired from nature. Some have called her “the mother of American modernism”. Georgia studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of NY, and the University of Virginia. She taught art in public school in Texas, then at Columbia College in SC before her work was noticed by the photographer and gallery owner Alfred Steiglitz - her future husband. Alfred exhibited O’Keeffe’s work in his 291 Gallery in NYC to positive reviews. Georgia lived and painted in NYC for a number of years, but after spending a summer in New Mexico, she eventually moved to NM and made it her permanent home sending work back to her husband Steiglitz for shows in his NYC gallery. O’Keeffe received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ford in 1977.