Fun Facts About Georgia O'Keeffe
- Georgia O'Keeffe was hired to paint a pineapple for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now Dole), but she did not paint it until the company sent a pineapple plant to her New York studio.[1]
- O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44,405,000 in 2014, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist.[1]
- O'Keeffe rejected sexual readings of her flower paintings: "When people read erotic symbols into my paintings, they're really talking about their own affairs."[1]
- A fossil archosaur was named Effigia okeeffeae, "O'Keeffe's Ghost," in her honor in 2006.[1]
- O'Keeffe was named after her maternal grandfather, George Victor Totto, a Hungarian count who came to the United States in 1848.[1]
- O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo became friends after meeting in New York in 1931, and they stayed in touch while O'Keeffe recovered from a nervous breakdown.[1][3][4]
- Georgia O'Keeffe and Jean-Michel Basquiat were alive at the same time for 25 years.[1][2][5][6]
- Georgia O'Keeffe was alive at the same time as Cristiano Ronaldo — their lives overlapped for 1 year (1985–1986).[1][2][7][8]
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.[1]
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Questions About Georgia O'Keeffe
When was Georgia O'Keeffe born?
Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, and died on March 6, 1986.
How old was Georgia O'Keeffe at death?
Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, and died on March 6, 1986, at age 98.
What was Georgia O'Keeffe known for?
Georgia O'Keeffe was known for: Mother of American modernism. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.
Who was alive at the same time as Georgia O'Keeffe?
Georgia O'Keeffe's closest contemporary was Charlie Chaplin. Their lives overlapped for 88 years.
Sources
- Georgia O'Keeffe — Wikipedia. Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Georgia O'Keeffe (Q46408) — Wikidata
- Frida Kahlo — Wikipedia
- Frida Kahlo (Q5588) — Wikidata
- Jean-Michel Basquiat — Wikipedia
- Jean-Michel Basquiat (Q155407) — Wikidata
- Cristiano Ronaldo — Wikipedia
- Cristiano Ronaldo (Q11571) — Wikidata
- Portrait: Georgia-O'Keeffe.jpg — Wikimedia Commons. Alfred Stieglitz, Public domain