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Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the first major painters in American art. Being one of the first artists she stayed true to her style and didn't fall into what everyone else was doing. Georgia O'Keeffe was the second born out of seven children. Her birth date was November 15, 1887. O'Keeffe's parent's names were Francis Calyxtus and Ida (Totto) O'Keeffe. She was the first girl born into the family. In her first fourteen years of her life she grew up living in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on the family farm. Growing up on the farm she needed the two brothers and five sisters to keep the farm looking good. The farm was a 640 acre dairy farm.
When Georgia was in the eighth grade she asked a daughter of a farm employee what she was going to do when she grew up. The girl said she didn't know. Georgia replied very definitely...
"...I am going to be an artist!"--"I don't really know where I got my artist idea...I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind (p 3-4)."
When it was time for her to go to high school, she continued her education in Madison, Wisconsin and Chatham, Virginia. Her school in Madison was called Sacred Heart Academy. O'Keeffe had to live in Madison with her aunt because her family moved to Williamsburg, Virginia. Eventually, Georgia moved to be with her family in the spring of 1903. In that fall she started her second high school called Chatham Episcopal Institute. Through high school she never received any proper training on how to be a good artist. Her lessons didn't take place until she went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Arts Students League in New York. O'Keeffe started off at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905 and ended up in the fall of 1907 at the Arts Students League. At both of these schools she learned the form of the Europeans. That is when the students would draw from plaster casts and live models and even painted still-life arrangements. In the...
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