O'KEEFFE WILLIAM & MARY CELEBRATES ARTIST, WHO, IN 1938, RECEIVED AN HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM THE COLLEGE.(DAILY BREAK)

From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: January 25, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: TERESA ANNAS THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

Virginia never has claimed a central role in Georgia O'Keeffe's journey. Only fans and scholars know the painter lived in Williamsburg, schooled in Chatham and taught in Charlottesville.< Our conventional commonwealth just isn't part of her American dream geography. Certainly not in the same way as New York, where she found her audience and modernist peers, and Sun Prairie, Wis., where she grew up on her family's thriving farm....

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