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Article: Bright, Bold, and Beautiful: The Art of Georgia O'Keeffe.(Brief Article)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Her paintings of bleached white skulls and pelvises of deer, antelope, and cattle, floating ethereally against a backdrop of landscape and sky, create what one critic called a "vision of infinity."
GEORGIA TOTTO O'KEEFFE was born Nov. 15, 1887, to Ida (Totto) and Francis Cliyxtus O'Keeffe, three and a half miles southeast of the village of Sun Prairie, Wis. The second of seven children and the oldest of five daughters, O'Keeffe began her formal education in a one-room schoolhouse on the Totto property. In the winter of 1898, the seeds of her art career were sown when she began private drawing lessons at home with her grammar school teacher, a family boarder who ...