Georgia O'keefe is known as the Mother of American Modernism. She was one of the first American artists to practice abstract art. O'Keefe created hundreds of paintings throughout her life and was a forerunner to modernism. O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Wisconsin. When she was 16, however, she moved to Virginia with her family. In 1907 she began studying at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Sadly, soon after she began college, her father went bankrupt, and her mother began to suffer tuberculosis. In order to be able to pay for her education, she took a job as a commercial artist. During the following years, she worked as an art teacher in various schools and colleges. In 1918 O'Keeffe moved to New York City, where she was funded and
