A Little bit about myself

      Hello my name is Georgia O'keeffe. They say I am one of America's best woman artists. I was born is Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1887. I always knew I was going to be an artist and went to collage to study art in Chicago and soon found my way to New York City. I spent a few years teaching but found I wanted to paint full time. Things really took off when I met Alfred Stieglitz who is a very wonderful photographer and gallery owner said,"At last a woman on paper." My first show caused quite a stir in his gallery. Over the years I have continued to paint large flower paintings and many landscapes especially in my beloved New Mexico. I never paint people; landscapes are what I love. My favorite medium is water color and oil paint. I love to spend long hours working out in nature, and becoming one with my paintings.

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•http://www.all-art.org/history658_photography13-12.html


Portrait of Georgia O'keeffe, 1918 by Alfred Stieglitz, Platinum Print.
The first photographs Stieglitz took of me was at Gallery 291 in 1917.  He photographed my hands and head, and made me pose in different positions, until he saw what he wanted to photograph.  Stieglitz new what he wanted to say with his camera.  When He died in 1946 I gave the Metropholitan Museum 72 photographs taken over twenty years of me.  They joined another 22 photographs that Stieglitz gave in 1928. 


•"Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe (1997.61.25)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1997.61.25 (October 2008)

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•http://yubyhe.egloos.com/9167302


Charcoal Drawing of a Shell, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1915.
This is one of a series of charcoal drawings I did around 1915.  I felt I had finally found my voice and was not copying from the past.


•"Georgia O'Keeffe: Drawing XIII (50.236.2)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/50.236.2 (October 2006)

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•http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/69.278.1


Black Iris, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1926.
This is one of my well known flower paintings.  My first flower paintings were shown in Gallery 291 in 1924, and even Stieglitz was even surprised by the boldness of them.  All the critics thought they were very sexual but that was not my intention.  


•"Georgia O'Keeffe: Black Iris (69.278.1)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/69.278.1 (October 2006)

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•http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgl/hd_stgl.htm

•http://www.all-art.org/photography/HH-%20Stieglitz%20alfred.htm


Alfred Stieglitz at the 291 Gallery by photographer Edward Steichen (American, Born in Luxembourg 1879 - 1973)
This is a photograph of Stieglitz taken at his gallery, 291.  Alfred Stieglitz was my lover, husband and supporter of my work.  
He exhibited fine art, photographs and many great european artists, for example: Matisse, Rodin, Picasso, Cézanne and of course my work.  He was a strong force in the New York art world at that time.  


The Terminal by Alfred Stieglitz, 1892. 
Stieglitz was also a very fine artist and took many photographs of New York City around 1892.  His photographs are of ordinary urban subjects, but he would often use natural elements like snow, rain and smoke to unify and  soften the harshness of the city.  Stieglitz used a small 4x5 camera which was portable and suitable for his subject matter instead of a large tripod studio camera.  


•"Edward Steichen: Alfred Stieglitz at 291 (33.43.29)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.29 (October 2006)
•"Alfred Stieglitz: The Terminal (58.577.11)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/58.577.11 (October 2006)

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•http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1997.61.19
•http://masters-of-photography.com/S/stieglitz/stieglitz_hands_and_thimble_full.html

Georgia O'Keeffe, by Alfred Stieglitz, 1921, Palladium Print.
Georgia O'Keeffs Hands, by Alfred Stieglitz, 1922.
Between 1917 - 1937 Stieglitz made more than three hundred photographic images of me.  My hands have always been admired and Alfred took many photographs of them.  He also took many photographs of my body which was very controversial at the time. 


•"Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe (1997.61.19)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1997.61.19 (October 2006)

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•http://www.columbiasc.edu/about/womenhistory/okeeffee.asp
                   
This is a photograph of Alfred and myself not long before his death in 1946.


•O’Keeffe, Georgia: Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe. Photograph.Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.<http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/164694/Alfred-Stieglitz-and-Georgia-OKeeffe>.