Georgia O’Keeffe
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Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, and she was born at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She had five older brothers. Georgia O’Keeffe was Irish/Hungarian/and Dutch. When she was born she had to move to a farm that her mother found. She didn’t have much attention like her brothers did. She liked her life being a painter and she loved painting things that she liked and she loved to painting things that she thought were very interesting!
One of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings was stolen from New Mexico’s museum and the painting was worth $500,000. They were trying to find the painting, but they didn’t find it anywhere! Georgia O’Keeffe was very sad because she couldn’t find her painting in the museum in New Mexico.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s career was when she was a teacher in Virginia and she was very talented with her great paintings. She helped in art class in a school showing little kids how to become a good painter like her.
Georgia O’Keeffe wanted to become an artist and she kept doing what she wanted to do and she loved doing everything she was doing. She was an artist in Chicago working on paintings. She liked to look for things to paint and when she really liked something she found she would go inside and go get her things to paint the thing she found to paint.
Georgia O’Keeffe was a very famous artist and a very good person. She loved her family and friends and when she died on March 6, 1986, people were very sad that she had died. That was a very sad part of her life on that day
She was the second child out of six. She attended Chatham Episcopal Institute and when she was there she got offered her an art program and she was great at it.
She painted some nature like flowers, still life, and landscapes. She also painted some bones dried up by the desert sun. She won many awards and here are a couple of them: The Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney museum of art.
Some interesting facts are she lived on an adobe house on the edge of the desert near Santa Fe. She also spent almost 40 years in New Mexico! She had a museum devoted to her in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1979.
