Georgia O'Keeffe

Introduction Read Aloud: Rewind (Subscriber Feature) Read Aloud: Play/Stop (Subscriber Feature) Read Aloud: Fast Forward (Subscriber Feature) Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist. She was best known for her large paintings of nature, especially flowers and bones. She became the first female painter to gain respect in New York's art world in the 1920s. Early Life Read Aloud: Rewind (Subscriber Feature) Read Aloud: Play/Stop (Subscriber Feature) Read Aloud: Fast Forward (Subscriber Feature) Georgia O’Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She grew up on a dairy farm. She received art lessons at home and was encouraged by teachers throughout her childhood. O’Keeffe attended art school in Chicago and New York, then lived in Chicago for a while. During this period her works were abstract. Abstract art communicates ideas through colors and shapes that do not represent any specific object. In 1912 she discovered the revolutionary ideas of an a...