Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O’keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie Wisconsin. She then died on March 6, 1986, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her spouse’s name was Alfred Stieglitz (m. 1924-1946). At a young age, Georgia started painting and doing art work. She went to study at the Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s, she later studied with some other artists such as William Merritt Chase as a member of the Art Student League. Georgia O’keeffe’s mother’s name was Ida O’keeffe, her father’s name was Francis

Introduction Georgia O’Keeffe was quoted saying, “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at is, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” Georgia O’Keeffe was a famous American painter, whose work influenced many artists today, and style resembled that of European abstract, and American pictorial forms. Georgia O’Keeffe’s art

Georgia O'Keeffe was a famous American artist who was born on November 17, 1887 in Sun Praire, Wisconsin. She studied at many art schools, including the Art Institute of Chicago, before dramatically changing her art style from representational to abstraction in 1915. Her highly abstract paintings were shown to her future husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and they were put on display at his world famous 291 gallery in New York City the next year. By the mid-twenties, she was one of America's most important

20th-century, Georgia O’Keeffe stands as one of the most talented and compelling. For upwards of seven decades, O’Keeffe’s representations of the allure of the American landscape were a brave counterpoint to the chaotic images embraced by the art world. Her cityscapes and still life paintings filled the canvas with a vibrant energy that gained her a following of the critics and the public. Though many have tried, no one has been able to imitate her intimacy and arrant accuracy. O’Keeffe was born in

Georgia O'Keefe was born on November 15, 1887, in the town Sun Prairie, Wisconsin to dairy farmers, Francis and Isa O'Keeffe. She was the second of seven children and the first daughter. She wished to become an artist at a young age and along with her sister, received tutelage from a local watercolor artist, Sara Mann. O'Keeffe graduated high school in 1905 and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905-1906, she then attended the Art Students League in New York City where she

The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern Art in the Van Vechten gallery at Fisk University accurately represents the modern art movements within the United States and Europe. European artists like Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Gino Severini and Renoir are featured in the exhibition. American artists like Marsden Hartley, Florine Stettheimer and Charles Demuth have pieces displayed as well. One can surely witness the differences and effects of European modern art on American artists and their work

Jean Toomer was born on December 26, 1894 to Nina Pinchback, and Nathan Toomer. He was born with the name Nathan Pinchback Toomer, but it was later changed to Eugene Toomer. Toomer’s grandfather Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback was born a free Negro to a white planter and a mulatto slave. Jean Toomer admired his grandfather, who served in the army during the Civil War, and later became governor of Louisiana. His grandfather, like Toomer, was able to easily pass for black or white. Throughout Jean

GUERRILLA GIRLS In 1985 the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) of New York held an exhibition of contemporary art entitled An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture. Of the 169 artists who participated in it, only 13 were women. In front of the museum was a strange group against this inequality: they were women, they wore masks of apes and called themselves Guerrilla Girls. They shared a sense of frustration at the fact that by the end of the century the differences between the sexes persisted and

received a degree. In 1918, Toomer launched his writing career with a short story titled “Bona and Paul”. Though he wasn’t only a story writer, he also wrote plays and poems too. At the age of 27, Toomer was working as a school principal in Sparta,Georgia. The scenery of where he was currently residing was what inspired him to write “Cane”. Cane was a novel composed of poems and stories connecting to African-American stress and issues. Even though some of his work was considered a masterpiece, he left

These tribes had populations were estimated to be around 65,000 people strong that lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. (Foner, 2012) The American Indians fought for their rights and beliefs through the American court system. Their other objective other than fighting for their rights was but in the end, they were forced out of their homes to move