What was Georgia O'Keeffe's childhood like?

Answer 1

As a teenager Georgia moved with her family to Williamsburg, Va., where she attended the Chatham Protestant Episcopal Institute, graduating in 1904. During the next few years she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League (New York). She developed her artistic ability by painting still lifes; most successfully the oil on canvasDead Rabbit With Copper Pot. Though it won her a scholarship in its medium and was an early indication of her genius, it brought Georgia little personal satisfaction for she felt it differed little from the works of still life painters before her. Ergo, she resolved to put painting aside for a while. Briefly she was a freelance commercial artist in Chicago and then found a more pliable career for her art work in that of teaching. In 1912, she became a teacher of art and supervisor of art for the public schools in Amarillo, Texas and in 1918 she became head of the art department at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Tx

Answer 2

Her parents, Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe, were dairy farmers. Her father was of Irish descent. Ida Totto's father, George Victor Totto, for whom Georgia O'Keeffe was named, was a Hungarian count who came to America in 1848

Georgia was the first girl and the second of seven O'Keeffe children.

She married Alfred Stieglitz in 1924

Answer 3

Art in general. One thing she would always do is stare at something small for a while like a flower, just lookin at it's detail (which then gave her the flower paintings)

~I did a HUGE report on Georgia O'keefee hehe~

Answer 4

Her lifestyle was graceful and peace. And she lived in the desert.

Answer 5

She certainly did.