Giorgia O Keffe

Poppy 1927

Geogia O Keffe (American) 1887-1986.

She painted representational flowers, shells, bones and landscapes incoporating abstractness. She said that her truest and consistent visual sources were in the American Southwest. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then later at the Art Students League in New York. She taught at Columbia College, where she taught the theories of her mentor, painter and writer, Arthur Wesley Dow.

She was married to the photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1929, and they begun a collaborative carrer.

She was forced to stop painting in the late 1970's due to her failing eyesight, she died aged 98.