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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe. By Caroline Hanna. Early childhood. Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887. The second of seven children. O’Keeffe longed to be an abstract artist from an early age. Middle Life.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

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  1. Georgia O'Keeffe By Caroline Hanna

  2. Early childhood • Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887. The second of seven children. • O’Keeffe longed to be an abstract artist from an early age

  3. Middle Life • When Georgia was in high school she got typhoid fever, a deadly bacterial disease that made her hair fall out • She met a famous photographer named Alfred Stieglitz ,and he saw her art and put it up for everyone to see

  4. Later Years • She married Alfred Stieglitz in 1924 • When her husband died she moved to New Mexico. She was best known for her large desert paintings of flowers and wild life • In 1997 a Georgia O'Keeffe museum was opened in her honor in Santa Fe ,New Mexico

  5. The end • I hope you enjoyed my PowerPoint

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