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by MARINA VAIZEY
IN THE WAVE of increasing interest in categorising achievement by gender, enormous claims have been made for the art of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), the subject of an exhibition at Tate Modern, London (to 30th October).1 She dedicated her life in art to show ‘the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it’. This is a case of an artist whose biography is so intriguing that there is a danger that it overtakes and even at times submerges her art. It is a fascinating trajectory: from her dairy farming family in Wisconsin, where at the age of eleven she announced her determination to be an artist, to her studies in Virginia, Chicago and New York, her relatively short-lived teaching career, notably in Texas, her long attachment to Albert Stieglitz, her place in the American avant-garde and her life in New Mexico. Throughout she was haunted by ill health, both mental and physical. Her acerbic, wry and humorous personality led to her forming deep friendships with the intelligentsia, especially writers, artists and photographers, including Paul Strand, his wife Rebecca and Ansel Adams. Her distinctive appearance led to her being one of the most photographed artists in existence.
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About Georgia O’Keeffe
"I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it."
Biography
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, renowned for her contribution to modern art. Born on November 15, 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe grew up on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school in 1905, O’Keeffe had determined to make her way as an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, where she learned the techniques of traditional painting. The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically four years later when she studied the revolutionary ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow offered O’Keeffe an alternative to established ways of thinking about art. She experimented with abstraction for two years while she taught art in West Texas. Through a series of abstract charcoal drawings, she developed a personal language to better express her feelings and ideas.
O’Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City. Her friend showed them to Alfred Stieglitz, the art dealer and renowned photographer, who would
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Understanding Georgia Painter and Aelfred Stieglitz
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