In her early years, she grew up on a wheat farm in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Her mother, Ida Totto was much with Hungarian heritage and her father Francis Calixtus O'Keeffe was Irish. While being the second of seven children she was taught at a young age to become well educated. Georgia developed an interest in painting and the natural world. She was taught how to paint by a local artist.
After she completed high school she attended that art institute of Chicago, she was ranked at the top of her competitive classes but she developed typhoid fever which is an infectious bacterial fever which took her a year to recover from. When recovered she continued her studies in New York city. After a year of studying in New York, she returned home
After she completed high school she attended that art institute of Chicago, she was ranked at the top of her competitive classes but she developed typhoid fever which is an infectious bacterial fever which took her a year to recover from. When recovered she continued her studies in New York city. After a year of studying in New York, she returned home