Bright, Bold, and Beautiful: The Art of Georgia O'Keeffe.(Brief Article)

USA Today (Magazine) | January 1, 2000| | Copyright

Her paintings of bleached white skulls and pelvises of deer, antelope, and cattle, floating ethereally against a backdrop of landscape and sky, create what one critic called a "vision of infinity."

GEORGIA TOTTO O'KEEFFE was born Nov. 15, 1887, to Ida (Totto) and Francis Cliyxtus O'Keeffe, three and a half miles southeast of the village of Sun Prairie, Wis. The second of seven children and the oldest of five daughters, O'Keeffe began her formal education in a one-room schoolhouse on the Totto property. In the winter of 1898, the seeds of her art career were sown ...

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