Georgia O'Keeffe was a renowned American artist of the twentieth century (Robinson, 89) who, through her famous works, became one of the most popular painters of the time. Born on fifteenth day of November in the year 1987 and later died at the age of ninety eight (Evans, 16), she grew up among her siblings and realized her goal of being an artist as early as when she was only ten. She went through high school and later joined the Art Institute of Chicago where she reached the professional level of her work as a painter and an artist.
Her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, was someone of close profession as her (Barbara, 1989) owning gallery in South Carolina. Her husband had a lot of influence in her life given that her first gallery show was helped by Alfred himself and took place in his gallery in the year 1916. This was the time she got known publicly and her works of art started gaining fame. The second time the husband leads to her making a major decision is when he proposes that she moves to New York and devote all her time and life to art.
Georgia loved her husband a lot and this is clear from the time Alfred showed her works for the first time in his gallery. She disputes it but then allows him to keep her works on display at the gallery (Bio.True Story, 213). She even agrees to his proposal and moves to New York to stay with him as they carry on with the art profession and business. She even gets children and bring them up together with Alfred until he dies. She remains with the children and brings them up as a single mother after the death of her husband.
Among her superior art-works, Georgia became much famous of paintings such as the "Black Iris" of 1826 and the “Oriental Poppies" ("Life and Artwork of Georgia O'Keeffe.", 23). She started using turpentine based paints in her works and charcoal based ones afterwards producing pieces of paintings that to date remain among the best arts of all times. Indeed, a museum has been dedicated to her works where all that she did can be seen today.
The collections of her art are enough to signify how great painter and artist she was. To date, her arts remain among the best ones even winning awards of art and paintings after all those years.
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