1. Georgia O’Keefe 1887-1986

2. Georgia O'Keeffe was an American abstract painter, famous for the purity and lucidity of her still-life compositions. O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and studied at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Art Students League of New York. She taught art in Texas from 1913 to 1918. In 1916 the American photographer and art gallery director Alfred Stieglitz (whom she married in 1924) became interested in her abstract drawings and exhibited them at “291,” his gallery in New York City; her work was shown annually in Stieglitz's galleries until his death in 1946 and was widely exhibited in other important institutions.

3. O’Keeffe’s Flower Motifs

4. Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of flowers are among her most famous. Many critics and scholars have talked about themes in O'Keeffe's work such as the cycles of birth, life, death and decay. Others saw the flowers as symbols of sexuality. Still others observed that she was incorporating photographic techniques such as cropping and close- ups, even before the technology of colour film or large photographic blow-ups had been invented.

5. Other Natural Forms by O’Keeffe

6. Sea Weed Leaf Motif

7. O’Keeffe created abstract motifs by painting unusual views of an object on a large scale. She said, "A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower... still in a way nobody really sees a flower really … it is so small.So I said to myself … I'll paint what I see...but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it...even busy New Yorkers [will] take time to see what I see of flowers....