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Mrs.Pirkle’s 9th Grade Visual Arts Class

G E O R G I A O ’ K E E F E

This website was created as a class project .

In the assignment we are to create a web

site that features a famous American artist.

The featured artist for this site is Georgia

O’Keefe.

Welcome! The purpose of this site is to give

the viewer a biography of Georgia O’Keefe

and a brief look at some of her work. The

hope is, the viewer will be intrigued and

take a closer look at the artist.

“Art is not what you see, but what you

make others see.” Georgia O’Keefe

An American High School

2011 March 23rd Street

Anywhere, USA

4610EDT

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Black Iris, 1926

Georgia O'Keeffe

Oil on canvas

36 x 29 7/8 in.

Created By: Kerrie Allred-Pirkle

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Georgia O’Keeffe, 1968.

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A R T I S T B I O

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Among the great American artists of the 20th-century,

Georgia O’Keeffe stands as one of the most compelling. For

nearly a century, O’Keeffe’s representations of the beauty

of the American landscape were a brave counterpoint to the

chaotic images embraced by the art world. Though she has

had many imitators, no one since has been able to paint

with such intimacy and stark precision.

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in

1887. In 1905 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and

a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New

York. Georgia O’Keeffe had her first exhibition in 1916 at

Steiglitz’s “291 Gallery. She and Steiglitz married in 1922,

beginning one of the most fruitful and well-known

collaborations of the modernist era. For the next twenty

years the two would live and work together. When Steiglitz

in 1946 died, O’Keeffe took up permanent residence in

Taos, New Mexico. More than almost any of her other

works, these early New Mexico landscapes and still lifes

have come to represent her unique gifts.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, O’Keeffe’s fame

continued to grow. A major retrospective in 1970, at the

Whitney Museum of American Art, placed her categorically

as one of the most important and influential American

painters. In 1976, her illustrated autobiography, GEORGIA

O’KEEFFE was a best seller, and the next year she received

the Medal of Freedom from President Gerald Ford.

In 1985 she received the Medal of the Arts from

President Ronald Reagan. In March of the next year, at the

age of 98, O’Keeffe passed away at St. Vincent’s Hospital in

Santa Fe, New Mexico. Georgia O’Keeffe’s work remains a

prominent part of major national and international

museums. For many, her paintings represent the

beginnings of a new American art free from the irony and

cynicism of the late 20th century.

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A Art History timeline.

“To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.” Georgia O’Keefe

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An American High School

2011 March 23rd Street

Anywhere, USA

4601EDT

Phone: 555-555-5555

Fax: 555-555-5555

E-mail:

someone@example.com

An interview with Georgia

O’Keefe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930

oil on canvas

overall: 40 x 30 in.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Narcissa's Last Orchid , 1940

Pastel on paper

21 7/16 x 27 3/16 in.

Georgia O’Keefe

Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue, 1931

Oil on Canvas

40 x 38 in

Georgia O’Keefe

Deer Skull with Pedernal !936

Oil On Canvas

36 x 30 in.

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way-things I had

no words for.” Georgia O’Keefe