Georgia O Keeeffe Accomplishments

Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe was American female artist born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1905) and the Art Students League in New York City (1907-1908). O’Keeffe on April 3, 1917, had her first solo show. It was sponsored by John Singer Sargent, a artist Georgia admired very much and would later become her husband, featured charcoal sketches, which O'Keeffe had made in 1916. Stieglitz was captivated by them and begun also one of the most famous collaborations in art history. After her husband died in 1946, she moved to New Mexico where she continued painting until the ripe age of 84. She shortly died in her home on March 6, 1986. Some of the many accomplishments Georgia O’Keeffe had received …show more content…
She is known as the “Mother of American modernism” and inspired many feminist artist. Despite being a member of the Women's National Party, before women were allowed to vote, she refused to have her name be associated to modern women's causes. Georgia claimed that, “ She wanted to be known, not as the best American painter or the best woman painter, but simply as an artist who had made the best possible use of the gifts she possessed” (“Georgia O’Keeffe”, 2003). O’Keeffe also sparked controversy with her imfamous flower paintings. Though she has denied all claims, many critics including Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, argued that her interpretation of the flower represented many feminine features. Her flower paintings only take up a small portion of her painting collections, O'Keeffe is also known for her New York skyscrapers and beautiful New Mexico inspired landscapes. Some of her best known painting are Black Iris (1926), New York Night (1929), and Summer Days …show more content…
The American modernism movement that occurred in the United States beginning at the turn of the 20th century, with a core period between World War I and World War II. American modernism was the beginning of American art as distance itself from classic European styles by breaking artistic conventions that had been shaped after European traditions. Ironically, Many of the modernist painters best known today are those who were against the idea of the modern. Artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, attempted to “provide a counterforce to modernity that would lift people out of the increasingly depraved life, as they saw it, of urbanization, industry and commercialization to a more "spiritual" understanding of life.” (“Who Are American Modernist?”, 2003). The Modernist American movement is a representation of American life was like in the 20th