Our classroom artist: Georgia O'Keeffe

This is what we know about Georgia O'Keeffe:
Georgia O'Keeffe was born in a farm house.
Georgia O'Keeffe's mum had 7 children and she was the second to be born.
Her parents, Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe were dairy farmers.  Her father was of Irish decent.
Georgia O'Keeffe was named after her Grandfather George Victor Totto.  He was a Hungarian count who came to America in 1848.
In 1908 Georgia O'Keeffe won the Art Student League William Merritt Chase still life award for her painting Dead Rabbit and Copper Pot.
Georgia O'Keeffe's first painting was untitled, done in 1916 and looks pretty much like a triangle.
One of Georgia O'Keeffe's New York paintings is Lake George Reflection.  The date is unknown. 
Georgia O'Keeffe did a New York painting called Special in 1916/1917.  It was charcoal on paper.
In 1916 a photographer Alfred Stieglitz got hold of some of O'Keeffe's paintings.  During that first summer, O'Keeffe painted twenty three paintings.
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe's husband was an American photographer and art promoter.  He was a photographer for 50 years.
Alfred Stieglitz married Emme Line Obemeyer before Georgia O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe in Hawaii.  She painted flowers, landscapes and traditional Hawaiian fish hooks.
They needed her artwork to advertise the Pineapple Company in Hawaii.
Georgia O'Keeffe was influenced by Yayoi Kusama.  In the 1960s Yayoi held many events such as fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations.
Georgia O'Keeffe worked in and around Taos making paintings of various architecture, trees and landscape forms that interest her.
She mainly used brushes to apply oil paint to canvases.
There are 53 pieces of her art in the Denver Art Museum.
She was quite famous because she had her own museum.
Marquatte Junior High School was renamed in 1953 to Georgia O'Keeffe Middle School.

Georgia O'Keeffe said "I decided if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you can't ignore it's beauty."

Georgia O'Keeffe could not see well, so she could no longer paint when she was old.
Georgia O'Keeffe died of old age.  She was 98.