Georgia O'Keeffe

(American, 1887–1986)

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Ladder to the Moon, 1974

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Biography

Timeline

1887
Born on November 15 in Sun Prairie, WI
1905 - 1906
Attended the Art Institute of Chicago.
1907 - 1908
Attended the Art Students League of New York
1908
Won the League’s William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Untitled (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot)
1914 - 1915
Studied teaching at the Teachers College at Columbia University in New York
1915
Started teaching at Columbia College in Columbia, SC
1924
Married internationally known photographer, Alfred Stieglitz
1962
Elected to the 50-member American Academy of Arts and Letters
1986
Died on March 6 in Santa Fe, NM

Exhibitions

2007 - 2008
Oct. 7 - Jan. 6, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction", Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Permanent collections:

Museum of Modern Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.