Art Gal: Georgia O'Keeffe

I remember the most when I actually watch her bio on TV many years back. I know TV can make a strong image and can play more then it really is on a person. I found myself wrapped into her film, and had the desire to know more and more. Most Artist are very personal, and finding books and article on her life it all resulted the same, she loved so much a man and yet their rocky relationship was heavy and the weight really put hardship on believing in one self. Human behavior can bring so much emotions we are not prepared for reactions.

Georgia O'Keeffe was a famous artist. Georgia was born on November 15, 1887 in a farmhouse in Sun Prairie on a dairy. When Georgia was young she wanted to be an artist. When Georgia was alive (in the 1900's) very few women were professional artists. In 1902, her parents moved to Virginia and in 1903, Georgia and her sisters and brothers went to Virginia.

At the age of 16 Georgia had private art lessons. Georgia went to New York to study art. She did very well when she studied. She got her diploma in 1905. In 1907 she got a letter to come to New York. Her dad could not pay anymore for her classes in art so she had to go to Chicago to be a commercial artist and live with her aunt in 1908.

In Chicago she did not have time to paint there, so she was angry. She got ill in Chicago, so she went back to live with her family in 1909. When she was home she had time to paint again. One day, Georgia got a letter saying that she could teach painting in Amarillo.

Georgia had a friend named Anna Pollitzer. In 1916 Georgia sent a few drawing to Anna and told not to show anyone. Her friend thought the pictures were so good that she took them to a famous photographer. He liked them a lot so he hung them in his gallery. It was difficult for Georgia to work in a man's dominated world.

In 1917 she got ill and gave up her job teaching. An artist named Stieglitz asked Georgia to marry him and she decided to. Georgia O'Keeffe became well known for large paintings of flowers and the desert. Until she died at the age of 98, she was still painting.