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Georgia O'Keefe Gallery |
Sherman's Headquarters, Savannah, Georgi
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Mercer University, Macon, Georgia
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Cathedral, Savannah, Georgia
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Gallery Description
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. From her childhood days she showed deep interest in painting. Her parents and her teachers recognized her interest and talents in the field and encouraged her. Determined to become a painter, she joined the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Student League, New York. In these places she quickly mastered the principles of the art of imitative realism.
After painting for a while, she gave up painting, as the constraints of tradition were something she couldn’t handle. But four years later, she renewed her interest and took up teaching art. It was then that she met Bement who introduced O'Keeffe to the then revolutionary ideas of his colleague at Teachers College, artist and art educator Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow believed that goal of art was to express the artist's personal ideas and feelings and that such subject matter was best realized through harmonious arrangements of line, color and lights.
She liked the idea and decided to experiment with it at the same time as she was teaching. In an attempt to discover a personal language to express her own feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings. These are recognized as the most innovative of all American paintings of those times. These paintings were shown to Alfred Stieglitz, a famous photographer, who was so impressed with it that he took it upon himself to promote her paintings. He offered her financial support and popularized her work by holding annual exhibitions, until his death. Soon after, Georgia moved to New Mexico, her all time favorite place. Since then, her works show the strong influence the place, its beautiful and contrasting landscapes had on her. She is most well known for her large-scale depictions of flowers as if seen close up.
Check out our gallery of Georgia O'Keeffe’s paintings.
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Thursday, August, 7 th
2008
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