Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was an artist known for her paintings of skyscrapers, desert landscapes, and over 200 works featuring close-ups of flowers.
She taught at university and sat on educational boards, traveling all over the United States to conduct her work. Rare for artists, O'Keeffe was a celebrity during her lifetime, was the subject of several retrospectives (being the first woman to have one at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan), and had her work officially catalogued by the Whitney Museum of American Art beginning in the 1940s (long before the end of her career).
In 2014, twenty-eight years after her death, O'Keeffe set a record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman at $44.4 million. Much of her work is on display at The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and several traveling exhibits around the world. She has been immortalized on postage stamps, had a species of archosaur named after her, and has been the subject of multiple docudramas including one on PBS where she was played by Jane Alexander, and another for Lifetime in which Joan Allen portrayed O'Keeffe.
==References==
* A version of O'Keeffe's "Red Poppy" (1927) appears in the Disney Junior Music: Ready for Preschool video "At the Art Museum" displayed next to Mary Cassatt's "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" (1878).
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