Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the best known of 20th Century American artists, had a passion for remoteness and nature that is reflected in her paintings.
O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and taught school in Amarillo, Texas. She studied art in New York City and married Alfred Stieglitz, famous for establishing photography as a legitimate art form. In 1949, three years after his death, she moved to Ghost Ranch, her home in Abiquiu, a town in northern New Mexico.
Though she had painted in New England, in the Southwest her art blossomed--literally. She drew giant vivid flowers and leaves that appear somewhat mystical and even menacing. She captured the feeling of the desert in strong images of red rock and bleached bones painted in a precise, orderly and intentionally simple style.
