A look into the extraordinary career of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most productive and influential American artists of all time.
Few major American artists have been as productive, for so long, in so many media, as Georgia O’Keeffe was during her extraordinary career. From her early, accomplished drawings which caught the eye of her future husband, Alfred Steiglitz, in 1916 through her firm studies of urban life and architecture in the 1920s and well into her gorgeous later works inspired by the natural beauty of New Mexico , O’Keeffe forged a unique, solitary path through the landscape of modern art .
Born during the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (1887), the span of O’Keeffe’s life (she died in 1986, at 98, in New Mexico) seemingly encompassed not mere decades, but ages: the invention of the airplane, two world wars, the Cold War, the Space Race and the introduction of the personal compute
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