Why is Georgia OKeeffe famous?
Georgia O’keeffe (b.Nov. 15, 1887, Sun Prairie, Wis.-d.March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, N.M.) Modern art in the 20th Century was a period of a vast creative revolution. In recounting this era it would be negligent to forget to mention or to purposely omit the work of the singularly talented and unconventional painter Georgia O’Keeffe. In her long career she became renown for her portrayal of a vivid, powerful and private sensibility in natural objects such as flowers, clouds, and most notably animal skulls and bones. This combined with her use of thin paint and clear colors evoked feelings of mystical silence and put her years ahead of her time. Of Irish and Hungarian ancestry, Georgia O’Keeffe was born on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wis. She grew up an introspective child who did things her own way and decided early to become a painter because as she once said: “That was the only thing I could do that was nobody else’s business.” As a teenager Georgia moved with her family to Williamsburg, Va., wh
