1. Georgia O’Keeffe
Artist and New Mexican
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2. Georgia O’Keeffe Her full name is: Georgia Totto O’Keeffe
Born on November 15th, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Her parents were dairy farmers. She was the first girl and the second of seven children. Her parents were Hungarian immigrants.
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3. Georgia O’Keeffe
She attended the art institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York City.
A major figure in American art since the 1920s.
Married the famous American photographer Alfred Stieglitz who owned the gallery where her art would first be shown. Some believe that it was thanks to him that she received as much attention as she did at a time when most women artists were not receiving much publicity or attention.
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Georgia O'Keeffe

4. Georgia O’Keeffe
Chiefly known for her unique capacity to synthesize abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes.
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Georgia O'Keeffe

5. Georgia O’Keeffe
O'Keeffe was able to transform her subject matter into powerful, abstract images.
O’Keeffe first visited New Mexico in the summer of Between 1929 and 1949, she spent part of every year working in New Mexico.
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Georgia O'Keeffe

6. Georgia O’Keeffe
In 1934, she discovered Ghost Ranch, an area North of Abiquiu, whose painted desert of dramatically colored, enormous cliffs inspired some of her most famous paintings
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7. Georgia O’Keeffe
She moved to New Mexico permanently in 1949—3 years after the death of her husband.
In 1984, she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She died at St. Vincent’s Hospital in 1986 at the age of 98.
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Georgia O'Keeffe