The Life Of Georgia O'Keefe
My name is Georgia Totto O’Keefe, the second child of Francis and Ida O’Keefe. I was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. I am of Irish, Hungarian, and Dutch descent.
With five other siblings, I always craved attention and praise from my parents, and always wanted to be thought pretty. As a result of coming from such a large family, I acquired a sense of maturity and independence very early in my life. I first attended the Sacred Heart Academy, a Roman Catholic convent school on the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin, and then moved on to Chatham Episcopal Institute in the fall of 1903. Chatham offered an art program, which I excelled in. In 1905, I was accepted into ...
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South Carolina, in 1915-1916; and at west Texas Normal College in 1916-1917, and I taught summers at the University of Virginia. Despite my studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, the University of Virginia, and Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York, I was never able to remain at one institution long enough to receive an academic degree.
My career began on April 3, 1917 with the opening of my first solo show, sponsored by Alfred Stieglitz, who I later married in December 1924. My work displayed bold originality, unlike the work of any American artist of that time. My shows were controversial because my work was seen as inordinately sensual, and many critics, filled with Freudian enthusiasms of the day, were anxious to append elaborate psychological programs to my works. Some protested that I was boldly displaying my sexuality on canvas; others, more ready to accept innovation, recognized that they were present at the birth of a ...
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