1. Second of seven children-grew up on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
Attended the Art Institute of Chicago.
Trained artist- chose abstraction as a focus throughout career
Georgia O’Keeffe

2. The Early Years ( )
"I have but one desire as a painter – that is to paint what I see, as I see it, in my own way, without regard for the desires or taste of the professional dealer or the professional collector."-  Georgia O’Keeffe
Her experiments with abstraction really began in the fall of 1915, when she held a private exhibition of her work in her room and realized that most of it had been made to please others.

3. New York ( )
O’Keeffe moved to New York in June 1918 at the invitation of Alfred Stieglitz, and they were married in 1924.
Soon after her arrival in New York, O’Keeffe began working primarily in oil. Between 1918 and 1923, she produced in this medium some of the most remarkable abstractions of her entire career.
Georgia O'Keeffe, The Black Iris, 1926, Oil on Canvas, 9 x 7 inches, Gift of the Burnett Foundation, ©Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

4. New Mexico ( )
In 1917, when O’Keeffe traveled from Texas to vacation in Colorado, she spent several days in New Mexico for which she felt an immediate affinity. She returned twelve years later, in 1929, to spend the first of many summers painting there. In 1949, three years after Stieglitz’s death, she made New Mexico her permanent home.

10. Find an image of a natural object
Decide on the area in that photo that you want to make your focus. It should be an extreme close up so that the final painting is abstracted.
Make sure that you are choosing an area that offers you the opportunity to blend colors and make interesting shapes