1910's The Arts | Evening Star, III

Painting

By: Georgia O'Keeffe

Date: 1917

Source: O'Keeffe, Georgia. Evening Star, III. The Museum of Modern Art. Available online at http://www.moma.org (accessed May 7, 2003).

About the Author: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. At the age of 12, she decided to become an artist. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Art Students League of New York, and with several well-known artists including William Merritt Chase and Arthur Wesley Dow. As a young woman O'Keeffe taught art in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina. Her first exhibition was in 1916 at the 291 gallery in New York City, run by photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. O'Keeffe became one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century, known for large-scale, close-up abstract paintings of...