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This Day In History. History Vault. US Government. Art, Literature, and Film History. Sign Up. Cold War. American Revolution. World War II. Above all, she was a pioneer of abstraction, creating images that were inspired by close observation of her surroundings but were products of her insight and imagination rather than imitative representations of the visual world. As a child she received art lessons at home. Her abilities were recognized and encouraged by teachers throughout her school years.
The direction of her artistic practice shifted dramatically four years later when she took a summer course at the University of Virginia, taught by Alon Bement of Teachers College, Columbia University. Bement introduced her to the revolutionary ideas of his colleague Arthur Wesley Dow. Dow encouraged an intellectual and imaginative process of making art that was grounded in personal expression and harmonious design.
She began a series of abstract charcoal drawings, to develop a personal language through which she could express her feelings and ideas. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.
Her friend showed them to Stieglitz, who kept the drawings. She accepted his invitation and moved from Texas, where she had been teaching at the West Texas State Normal College since the fall of In they moved to a two-room suite at the Shelton Hotel with a view of the New York City skyline.
Over time, her New Mexico paintings became as well known as the work she had completed earlier in New York. Other artists supported by Stieglitz, including John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Ansel Adams, spent time in New Mexico and shared her fascination with representing a specific sense of place. Her search for the ideal color, light, stones, and parched bones, transformed her desert country excursions into a personal closeness she felt with the perfection around her.
Once, in a canyon bottom, she was so absorbed by the sight that she laid her head back Coyote-fashion and howled at the sky, terrifying her companions nearby who feared she was Georgia O'Keeffe. Reproduced by permission of the Corbis Corporation.
O'Keeffe's boldly original American works spanned a wide vision from taut city towers to desertscapes in such vivid hues and form "as to startle the senses," according to Williams's narrative. O'Keeffe painted until a few weeks before her death in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 6, , at the age of ninety-eight. Many of O'Keeffe's works found a permanent home among the adobe buildings of Sante Fe. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, designed by New York architect Richard Gluckman, opened in to hold more of her pastels, drawings, paintings, and sculptures than any other museum.
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