AKA Georgia Totto O'Keeffe

Born: 15-Nov-1887
Birthplace: Sun Prairie, WI
Died: 6-Mar-1986
Location of death: St. Vincent's Hospital, Santa Fe, NM
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Painter

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: American abstract and landscape painter

Father: Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe (d. 11-Nov-1918)
Mother: Ida Totto
Brother: Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe (1885-1959
Sister: Ida Ten Eyck (b. 1889, d. 1961)
Sister: Anita Natalie O'Keeffe (b. 1891, d. 1985)
Brother: Alexius Wyckoff O'Keeffe (b. 1892, d. 1930)
Sister: Catherine Blanche O'Keeffe (b. 1895, d. 1987)
Sister: Claudia Ruth O'Keeffe (b. 1899, d. 1984)
Husband: Alfred Stieglitz (photographer, m. 11-Dec-1924, d. 1946)

    High School: Chatham Episcopal Institute, Chatham, VA (1905)
    University: Art Institute of Chicago
    University: Art Students League, New York City
    University: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
    Teacher: Columbia College, Columbia, SC
    Teacher: West Texas State Normal College

    Presidential Medal of Freedom 1977
    National Medal of Arts 1985
    National Women's Hall of Fame 1993
    Hungarian Ancestry Maternal
    Irish Ancestry Paternal
    Risk Factors: Ophidiophobia

Official Website:
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

Author of books:
Georgia O'Keeffe (1976, memoir)

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