ज्योर्जिया ओ'कीफ

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**जर्जिया टोटो ओ'कीफ** ([[नोभेम्बर १५]], [[१८८७]]—[[मार्च ६]],[[१९८६]]) छम्ह अमेरिकी कलाकार ख। वय्कः अमेरिकी दक्षिणपश्चिम नाप स्वापू दु, गन वय्कलं कलात्मक प्रेरणा लुइकादिल, व विशेष यानाः [[न्यु मेक्सिको]], गन वय्कः जीवनया लिपांगु इलय् बसोबास यानादिल। ओकीफ सन् १९२०या दशकनिसें अमेरिकी कलाया छम्ह मू व्यक्तित्व खः । वय्कःयात मुख्यतः चित्रकलाया निंतिं म्हसीकेगु या गुकिलि वय्कलं स्वां, ल्वहं, शेल, पशुया क्वँय् व परिदृश्यया चित्रकलाय् अमूर्तता व प्रतिनिधित्वया संश्लेषण यानादिल। वय्कःया किपाय् थीथी रंगया सूक्ष्म टोनल संक्रमणं जाःगु रुपत न्ह्यब्वयातःगु दु । वय्कलं अप्वः धया थें थःगु विषयवस्तुयात शक्तिशाली अमूर्त किपाय् हिलाबिल।

==Early life==

O'Keeffe was born in a farmhouse in [[Sun Prairie, Wisconsin]].  Her parents, Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe, were [[dairy]] [[farmer]]s. Her father was of Irish descent.  Ida Totto's father, George, for whom Georgia was named, was a Hungarian immigrant. Through her mother, Georgia O'Keeffe was also related to Edward Fuller, one of the passengers on the Mayflower and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. O'Keeffe's maternal connection was descended from Edward Fuller's son  Matthew. 

She was the first girl and the second of seven O'Keeffe children. She attended Town Hall School in Wisconsin and received art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann. She attended high school at Sacred Heart Academy in [[Madison, Wisconsin]], as a boarder between 1901 and 1902. In fall 1902 the O'Keeffes moved from Wisconsin to [[Williamsburg, Virginia|Williamsburg]] in coastal [[Virginia]]. Georgia stayed in Wisconsin with her aunt and attended Madison High School, and joined her family in Williamsburg in [[1903]]. She completed [[high school]] as a boarder at Chatham [[Episcopal]] Institute in Virginia (now [[Chatham Hall]]), and graduated in 1905.  Education for women was a family tradition. Georgia's mother Ida had been educated in the East. All the daughters but one became professional women, attesting to her influence on them.

In 1905, O'Keeffe enrolled at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]]. In [[1907]], she attended the [[Art Students League of New York|Art Students League]] in [[New York City]], where she studied with [[William Merritt Chase]]. In [[1908]], she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting ''mona shehab'' (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot). Her prize was a scholarship to attend the League's outdoor summer school at [[Lake George (New York)|Lake George]], New York.  While in the city in 1908, O'Keeffe had attended an exhibition of Rodin's watercolors at the [[Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession|291]], owned by her future husband, photographer [[Alfred Stieglitz]].
 
In the fall of 1908, discouraged with her work, O'Keeffe did not return to the League but moved to Chicago and found work as a commercial artist.  During this period Georgia did not pick up a brush, and she said that the smell of turpentine made her sick.  She became an elementary school art teacher near [[Amarillo, Texas|Amarillo]] in the [[Texas Panhandle]].  She was inspired to paint again in 1912, when she attended a class at the [[University of Virginia]] Summer School, where she was introduced to the innovative ideas of [[Arthur Wesley Dow]] by Alon Bement.  Dow's teachings encouraged artists to express themselves through harmonious compositions and contrasts of light and dark.  Dow's teaching strongly influenced O'Keeffe's thinking about the process of making art.  She served as a Teaching Assistant to Bement for several years, before returning to Texas to teach in the art department of the fledgling [[West Texas A&M University]] (then West Texas State Normal College) in [[Canyon, Texas|Canyon]] just south of Amarillo.  She was inspired to go there because of the natural beauty of the nearby large [[Palo Duro Canyon]], carved by wind and water.

==New York==

Early in 1916, [[Anita Pollitzer]] took some of O'Keeffe's drawings to [[Alfred Stieglitz]] at his ''291'' gallery. He told Anita the drawings were the "purest, finest, sincerest things that had entered 291 in a long while.", and that he would like to show them. O'Keeffe had first visited ''291'' in 1908, but had never talked with Stieglitz, although she had high regard for his opinions as a critic. In April 1916 Stieglitz exhibited ten of her drawings. O'Keeffe had not been consulted before the exhibit and only learned about it through an acquaintance. She confronted Stieglitz for the first time over the drawings. She agreed to let them hang. Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo show opened at ''291'' in April 1917. Most of the exhibit were the watercolors from Texas. 

Shortly after her arrival in New York, Stieglitz took O'Keeffe to the Stieglitz family home at Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains. They would return to the lake home each summer for years to come. Georgia produced many paintings of the Lake George countryside during these years.

Stieglitz arranged for O'Keeffe to live in his niece's unoccupied studio apartment. By July, he and O'Keeffe had fallen deeply in love.  He left his wife Emmeline Obermeyer Stieglitz to live with O'Keeffe. After he was divorced in 1924, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married.  They spent winter and spring in Manhattan and summer and fall at the Stieglitz family house at Lake George. 

Stieglitz had started photographing O'Keeffe when she visited him in New York to see her 1917 exhibition.  He continued making photographs of her, taking more than 300 portraits between 1918 and 1937. Most of the more erotic poses were from the first few years of their marriage.  In February, 1921, forty-five of Stieglitz's photographs, including many of O'Keeffe and some in the nude, were exhibited in a retrospective exhibition at the Anderson Galleries.  The photographs of O'Keeffe created a public sensation. 

During her early years in New York City, O'Keeffe grew to know the many early American modernists who were part of Stieglitz's circle of friends, including [[Charles Demuth]], [[Arthur Dove]], [[Marsden Hartley]], [[Paul Strand]] and [[Edward Steichen]].  Strand's photography, as well as that of Stieglitz and his many photographer friends, inspired O'Keeffe's work.  Soon after she moved to New York, she began working primarily in oil, which represented a shift away from her having worked in watercolor in the 1910s.  By the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe began making large-scale paintings of natural forms at close range, as if seen through a magnifying lens.  

During the 1920s, O'Keeffe made both natural and architectural forms the subject of her work.  In 1924 she painted her first large-scale flower painting ''Petunia, No. 2,'', which was first exhibited in 1925.  She quickly completed a significant body of paintings of New York buildings, such as ''City Night'' and ''New York--Night,'' 1926, and ''Radiator Bldg--Night, New York,'' 1927. 

Beginning in 1923, Stieglitz organized annual exhibitions of O'Keeffe's work.  By the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe had become known as one of America's most important artists. Her work commanded high prices; in 1928 six of her calla lily paintings sold for $25,000 US dollars, which was the largest sum ever paid for a group of paintings by a living American artist. This drew media attention to O'Keeffe as never before.

==New Mexico==

By 1928, O'Keeffe began to feel the need to travel and find other sources for painting. The demands of an annual show needed new material. Friends returning with stories from the West stimulated O'Keeffe's desire to see and explore new places. In May 1929, she set out by train with her friend Beck Strand to [[Taos, New Mexico]]. They went to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]] and then to [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]]. Soon after their arrival, O'Keeffe and Strand were invited to stay at [[Mabel Dodge Luhan]]'s ranch outside of Taos for the summer. O'Keeffe went on many pack trips exploring the rugged mountains and deserts of the region. On one trip she visited the D. H. Lawrence ranch and spent several weeks there.

While in [[Taos, New Mexico]] in 1929, O'Keeffe visited the historical mission church at [[Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico|Ranchos de Taos]]. Although many artists had made paintings of the church, O'Keeffe's painting of a fragment of the mission wall silhouetted against the dark blue sky captured it in a different way. 

Between 1929 and 1949, O'Keeffe spent part of nearly every year working in New Mexico. During her second summer there, she began collecting and painting bones, and started  painting the area's distinctive architectural and landscape forms.  Each fall she returned to New York. 

In 1932 O'Keeffe suffered a nervous breakdown following an uncompleted [[Radio City Music Hall]] mural project that had fallen behind schedule. She was hospitalized in early 1933 and did not paint again until January 1934. In the spring of 1933 and 1934, O'Keeffe recuperated in Bermuda and she returned to New Mexico in the summer of 1934.  That summer, she discovered [[Ghost Ranch]], an area north of [[Abiquiu, New Mexico|Abiquiu]], whose varicolored cliffs inspired some of her most famous landscapes. In 1940 she purchased a house on the ranch property. 

A loner, O'Keeffe explored this place she loved on her own. She bought a Model A Ford and asked others to teach her how to drive. After one particularly exasperating moment, one of her teachers declared that she was unable to learn the art of driving. Only her determination was to lead to mastering her machine.  

In June 1934 O'Keeffe visited Ghost Ranch for the first time and decided immediately to live there. The ranch is located in a remote area approximately 120 miles north of Albuquerque. Among guests to visit her at the ranch were [[D. H. Lawrence]], Charles and Anna Lindbergh, and [[Ansel Adams]].

In the 1930s and 1940s, O'Keeffe's reputation and popularity continued to grow, earning her numerous commissions.  Her work was included in exhibitions in and around New York. In 1936, ''Summer Days'', a painting featuring a cattle skull adorned with various wildflowers, against a desert background, was completed. It would become one of her most famous and well-known works. In the 1940s, O'Keeffe had two one-woman retrospectives, the first at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] in 1943 and the second in 1946 at the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York.  It was the first retrospective MOMA held for a woman artist.  O'Keeffe also was awarded honorary degrees by numerous universities, the first by the [[College of William and Mary]] in 1938.  In the mid-1940s, the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] sponsored a project to establish the first catalogue of her work.

In [[1945]], O'Keeffe bought a second home, an abandoned hacienda in Abiquiu, some 16 miles (26 km) south of Ghost Ranch.  The Abiquiu house was renovated through [[1948]] and became the setting for many later paintings.

While O'Keeffe was spending the summer of 1946 in New Mexico, Stieglitz suffered a cerebral thrombosis. She quickly flew to New York to be with him.  He died on July 13, 1946. She took his ashes to Lake George and buried them at the foot of a tall pine tree beside the lake. Although separated for long periods through the years, Stieglitz had taken care of many business details for O'Keeffe.  She now had to take on these responsibilities.

In 1949 O'Keeffe moved to New Mexico permanently.  During the 1950s, O'Keeffe produced a series of paintings featuring the architectural forms --patio wall and door--of her [[adobe]] house in Abiquiu. Another distinctive painting of the decade was ''Ladder to the Moon'', 1958.  From her first world travels in the late 1950s, O'Keeffe produced an extensive series of paintings of clouds, such as ''Above the Clouds I,'' 1962/1963.  These were inspired by her views from the windows of airplanes. Below is an external link to a color image of one of these [[aerial landscape|aerial]] [[cloudscape art|cloudscape]] canvases.

In 1962, O'Keeffe was elected to the fifty-member [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]]. In the fall of 1970, the Whitney Museum of American Art mounted the ''Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition'', the first major showing of her work since 1946, the year Stieglitz died.  This exhibit did much to revive her public career.  It brought O'Keeffe to the attention of a new generation of women raised on the principles of [[feminism]].

In 1971 Georgia became aware that her eyesight was failing. At the age of 84, she was losing her central vision and only had [[peripheral]] sight, an irreversible eye degeneration disease. She stopped painting in 1972. Juan Hamilton, a young potter, appeared at Georgia's ranch house in 1973 looking for work. She hired him for a few odd jobs and soon employed him full time. He became her closest confidante, companion, and business manager until her death.

O'Keeffe dabbled in pottery herself, and had a large kiln installed at the ranch for firing pots. Even with her dimming eyesight, she was inspired by Hamilton and others to paint again. She hired a studio assistant to execute some of her ideas. During this time she agreed to accept interviews and other opportunities. In 1976 she wrote a book about her art, with Hamilton's help.  She also allowed a film crew to do a documentary at Ghost Ranch.

O'Keeffe became increasingly frail in her late 90's.  She moved to Santa Fe where she died on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98. Per her instructions, she was cremated the next day. Juan Hamilton walked to the top of the Pedernal Mountain and scattered her ashes to the wind, over her beloved "faraway."

==Legacy==   
Following O'Keeffe's death her family contested her will because codicils to it made in the 1980s had left all of her estate to Hamilton. The case was ultimately settled in July 1987 . The case, which was settled out of court, became famous as case law in estate planning. A substantial part of her estate's assets were transferred to the [[Georgia O'Keeffe Museum]], established in Santa Fe in 1997 to perpetuate O'Keeffe's artistic legacy. These assets included a large body of her work, photographs, archival materials, and her Abiquiu house, library, and property.

The [[Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio]] was designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1998.

The [[1993]] [[Warren Zevon]] song "Splendid Isolation" mentions how Zevon, in his search for solitude wants to "be like Georgia O'Keeffe"  [http://www.rhapsody.com/warrenzevon/learningtoflinch/splendidisolation/lyrics.html]

==Notes==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080219091547/http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/visit/press/merger.html The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation to Transfer Assets to Georgia O'Keeffe Museum], Press Release. May 31, 2005.


==See also==
*[[Aerial landscape]]
*[[Cloudscape (art)]]
*[[Women artists]]

==References==
*Roxana Robinson. 2000. O'Keeffe, Georgia. American National Biography Online
*Roxana Robinson. 1990. Georgia O'Keeffe: A life. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 0-7475-0557-8
*Barbara Buhler Lynes.  1999.  Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné.  London.  ISBN 0300081766 
*Lisa Mintz Messinger. 2001. Georgia O'Keeffe. Thames & Hudson, London. ISBN 0-500-20340-7
*Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080518031713/http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/background/chronology.html About Georgia O'Keeffe]
*Margret Dreikausen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090108104748/http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/d729543b2ed70922.html "Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art"] (Associated University Presses: [[Cranbury, NJ]]; [[London]], [[England]]; [[Mississauga, Ontario]]: [[1985]]) ISBN 0-87982-040-3 (contains extensive discussion of O'Keeffe's [[aerial landscape]]s and [[cloudscape (art)|cloudscape]]s)

==External links==


* [https://www.artst.org/okeeffe/ O'Keeffe Gallery (221 paintings) at artst.org]
* [https://www.okeeffemuseum.org Georgia O'Keeffe Museum]
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051124035533/http://lynx.csusm.edu/CirclesEdge/  Circle’s Edge]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110520010211/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5677272389162244435&q=nmpbs%2F Documentary Film, ''Georgia O'Keeffe'']
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/geok/geok_2.htm **COLOR IMAGE''' of aerial-view cloudscape by Georgia O'Keeffe]
* Exclusive video of Georgia O'Keeffe's "Circling Around Abstraction" exhibit on uVu
* Georgia O'Keeffe Gallery at MuseumSyndicate

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