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Georgia O'Keeffe

1887 - 1986

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. From 1905, when O'Keeffe began her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, until about 1920, she studied art or earned money as a commercial illustrator or a teacher to pay for further education. Influenced by Arthur Wesley Dow, O'Keeffe began to develop her unique style beginning with her watercolors from her studies at the University of Virginia and more dramatically in the charcoal drawings that she produced in 1915 that led to total abstraction. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georgia O'Keeffe is the 213th most popular painter (down from 209th in 2019), the 758th most popular biography from United States (down from 599th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Painter.

Georgia O'Keeffe is most famous for her paintings of flowers, skulls, and other subjects.

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Among painters, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 213 out of 2,023. Before her are Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Rosso Fiorentino, Charles-François Daubigny, Francesco Guardi, and Joaquín Sorolla. After her are Dieric Bouts, Luca Giordano, Carl Bloch, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jan Gossaert, and Nicholas Roerich.

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Among people born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 29. Before her are Henry Moseley, Saint-John Perse, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Nadia Boulanger, Georg Trakl, and Chūichi Nagumo. After her are Felix Yusupov, Ruth Benedict, Jack Phillips, August Macke, Wolfgang Köhler, and Nikolai Vavilov. Among people deceased in 1986, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 21. Before her are Urho Kekkonen, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Cliff Burton, Joseph Beuys, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and Alva Myrdal. After her are Henry Moore, Michael J. Smith, Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, Celâl Bayar, and Jaroslav Seifert.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 758 out of 20,380. Before her are Bell hooks (1952), Kip Thorne (1940), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Hugh Everett III (1930), Diana Ross (1944), and Roy Lichtenstein (1923). After her are Pat Robertson (1930), Oprah Winfrey (1954), Jeff Goldblum (1952), Wilt Chamberlain (1936), Frank Marshall (1877), and Billy Graham (1918).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 7. Before her are Bob Ross (1942), Jackson Pollock (1912), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Mary Cassatt (1844), Edward Hopper (1882), and Man Ray (1890). After her are Asher Brown Durand (1796), Joseph Kosuth (1945), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Lyonel Feininger (1871), and Richard Serra (1939).

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