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Georgia O'Keeffe Biography
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1887 |
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Born November 15th; Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
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1905 - 1906 |
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Attends the Art Institute of Chicago.
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1907 - 1908 |
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Attends the Art Students League, New York.
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1908 |
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Wins the League’s William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Untitled (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot).
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1914 - 1915 |
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Studies teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York.
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1915 |
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Starts teaching at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina.
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1924 |
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Marries internationally known photographer, Alfred Stieglitz.
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1962 |
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Elected to the 50 member American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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1986 |
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Dies March 6th; Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007 - 2008
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Oct. 7 - Jan. 6, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction", Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Permanent collections:
Museum of Modern Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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