Georgia O’Keefe
Biography
Georgia O’Keeffe is considered to be one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, she is highly regarded for her influence on modern art.
She was determined to be a professional artist a young age, and would go on to study traditional art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her approached shifted dramatically under Arthur Wesley Dow, who encouraged an abstract approach.
Early in her career she mailed a few paintings to a friend in New York where Alfred Stieglitz, a renowned art dealer and photographer saw them. He was the first to put on an exhibition of her works in 1916. By the mid-1920s she was recognized as an important and successful artist.
Her subject material changed throughout her career, early works often depict New York skyscrapers. Later works were centered on her life in New Mexico. Her oil paintings of animal skulls and flowers have grown to be her most recognizable artwork.
She died at the age of 98 on March 6, 1986 in Santa Fe, NM. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others.
Born: 1887
Died: 1986
Education: Teachers College, Columbia University
Exhibitions
Select Exhibitions
2022
O’Keeffe: Pattern of Leaves, THE HYDE COLLECTION GLENS FALLS | NEW YORK | USA
O’Keeffe and American Modernism, MCNAY ART MUSEUM SAN ANTONIO | TEXAS | USA
O’Keeffe, FONDATION BEYELER, BASEL BASEL | SWITZERLAND
O’Keeffe: Photographer, ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART ANDOVER | MASSACHUSETTS | USA
2021
O’Keeffe, Photographer, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON RIVER OAKS | HOUSTON | TEXAS | USA
O’Keeffe, CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS 4E | PARIS | FRANCE
O’Keeffe, MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA MADRID | SPAIN
2020
O’Keeffe: Abstract Variations, SEATTLE ART MUSEUM SEATTLE | WASHINGTON | USA
2019
The Natural World, GEORGIA O’KEEFFE MUSEUM SANTA FE | NEW MEXICO | USA
O’Keeffe: Living Modern, NORTON MUSEUM OF ART WEST PALM BEACH | FLORIDA | USA
O’Keeffe: Living Modern, NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART RENO | NEVADA | USA
Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM SALEM | MASSACHUSETTS | USA
2018
O’Keeffe: Flower Abstraction, 1924, FIGGE ART MUSEUM DAVENPORT | IOWA | USA
O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style, PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM SALEM | MASSACHUSETTS | USA
2017
O’Keeffe: Living Modern, BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART BROOKLYN | NEW YORK | USA
2016
O’Keeffe, KUNSTFORUM WIEN VIENNA | AUSTRIA
O’Keeffe, TATE MODERN BANKSIDE | LONDON | UK
2015
O’Keeffe in Process, NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART SANTA FE | NEW MEXICO | USA
O’Keeffe: Her Carolina Story, THE COLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART COLUMBIA | SOUTH CAROLINA | USA
O’Keeffe: A Place of Her Own, THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART NORFOLK | VIRGINIA | USA
2013
O’Keeffe in New Mexico, DENVER ART MUSEUM SUN VALLEY | DENVER | COLORADO | USA
2012
O’Keeffe, KUNSTHALLE MUNCHEN MUNICH | GERMANY
1916
Stieglitz opens group show at 291 that includes some of O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawings.
1917
Stieglitz opens O’Keeffe, first one-person show of her work, at 291;
1921
Stieglitz retrospective exhibition opens at The Anderson Galleries (145 prints, 1886-1921)
1923
Stieglitz opens Alfred Stieglitz Presents One Hundred Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings, by Georgia O’Keeffe, American, an exhibition of over 100 works at The Anderson Galleries.
1924
Stieglitz opens Alfred Stieglitz Presents Fifty-One Recent Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings, by Georgia O’Keeffe, American, at The Anderson Galleries and, simultaneously, opens an exhibition of 61 of his photographs.
1925
Stieglitz opens Alfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans: 159 Paintings, Photographs & Things, Recent & Never Before Publicly Shown, by Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, Paul Strand, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz at The Anderson Galleries, in which O’Keeffe’s large-format paintings of flowers are first exhibited.
1926
February: Stieglitz opens Fifty Recent Paintings, by O’Keeffe, at The Intimate Gallery, which includes first of many depictions of New York architecture completed between 1925 and 1932.
1927
Stieglitz opens O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1926, at The Intimate Gallery.
Paintings by O’Keeffe, opens at The Brooklyn Museum.
1928
Stieglitz opens O’Keeffe Exhibition, at The Intimate Gallery.
1929
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1928, at The Intimate Gallery.
Paintings by 19 Living Americans, with five works by O’Keeffe, opens at the Museum of Modern Art.
Stieglitz opens final gallery, An American Place, in Room 1710, 509 Madison Avenue, with Marin exhibition.
1930
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: 27 New Paintings, New Mexico, New York, Lake George, Etc., at An American Place, which includes earliest paintings of New Mexico crosses and of San Francisco de Assís Church in Ranchos de Taos.
1931
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: 33 New Paintings (New Mexico) at An American Place, the first exhibition with paintings of bones.
1933
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings—New & Some Old, at An American Place. O’Keeffe becomes ill and moves to New York apartment of sister Anita Young.
1934
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe at “An American Place,” 44 Selected Paintings 1915-1927.
1935
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Paintings (1919-1934), at An American Place.
1936
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1935, at An American Place.
1937
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: New Paintings, An American Place, New York, N.Y.
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: The 14th Annual Exhibition of Paintings With Some Recent O’Keeffe Letters, at An American Place.
1939
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils And Pastels, at An American Place.
1940
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels, at An American Place.
1941
Stieglitz opens Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe, at An American Place.
1942
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1941, at An American Place.
1943
O’Keeffe, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings-1942-1943, at An American Place.
1944
Stieglitz opens O’Keeffe: Paintings—1943, at An American Place.
1945
Stieglitz opens O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1944, at An American Place.
1946
Stieglitz opensO’Keeffe, at An American Place.
O’Keeffe, The Museum of Modern Art
1950
Paintings 1946-1950, to open at An American Place in October.
1960
O’Keeffe: Forty Years of Her Art Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum.
1961
O’Keeffe: Recent Paintings and Drawings, The Downtown Gallery
1966
O’Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966, at the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth.
1970
O’Keeffe, at the Whitney Museum of American Art.