Georgia O'Keeffe
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born
December 13, 1901
died
March 06, 1986
gender
female
place of birth
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, The United States
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Arts & Photography
about this author
Georgia Totti O'Keeffe was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspiration, and particularly New Mexico, where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
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One Hundred Flowers by Georgia O'Keeffe avg rating 4.07 — 41 ratings — published 1987 5 editions |
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Georgia O'Keeffe: In The West by Georgia O'Keeffe avg rating 4.33 — 24 ratings — published 1989 5 editions |
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Georgia O'Keeffe by Georgia O'Keeffe avg rating 4.30 — 20 ratings — published 1974 8 editions |
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters by Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack Cowart, Juan Hamilton avg rating 3.95 — 20 ratings — published 1987 |
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Some Memories of Drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 1988 |
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Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs by Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1992 |
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Georgia O'keefe: Selected Paint by Georgia O'Keeffe avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 0 |
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper by Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara Haskell avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 1985 |
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Georgia O'keeffe: The New York Years by Georgia O'Keeffe avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1991 |
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Gemälde by Georgia O'Keeffe avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2003 |
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"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do."
— Georgia O'Keeffe
— Georgia O'Keeffe
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."
— Georgia O'Keeffe
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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"I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous."
— Georgia O'Keeffe
— Georgia O'Keeffe
