Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'Keeffe

By Caroline HannaBy Caroline Hanna

Early childhoodEarly childhood

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887. The second of seven Wisconsin in 1887. The second of seven children. children.

O’Keeffe longed to be an abstract artist from O’Keeffe longed to be an abstract artist from an early agean early age

Middle LifeMiddle Life

When Georgia was in high school she got When Georgia was in high school she got typhoid fever, a deadly bacterial disease that typhoid fever, a deadly bacterial disease that made her hair fall out made her hair fall out

She met a famous photographer named Alfred She met a famous photographer named Alfred Stieglitz ,and he saw her art and put it up for Stieglitz ,and he saw her art and put it up for everyone to seeeveryone to see

Later YearsLater Years

She married Alfred Stieglitz in 1924She married Alfred Stieglitz in 1924 When her husband died she moved to New When her husband died she moved to New

Mexico. She was best known for her large Mexico. She was best known for her large desert paintings of flowers and wild lifedesert paintings of flowers and wild life

In 1997 a Georgia O'Keeffe museum was In 1997 a Georgia O'Keeffe museum was opened in her honor in Santa Fe ,New Mexicoopened in her honor in Santa Fe ,New Mexico

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