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 mr-damon rated 38 months ago- "When Georgia O'Keeffe was in the eighth grade, she asked a daughter of a farm employee what she was going to do when she grew up. The girl said she didn't know. Georgia replied very definitely:
"'I am going to be an artist!' I don't really know where I got my a...
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- kamal2004pa rated 14 months ago
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Abstraction, by Georgia Okeeffe
- Iwi rated 31 months ago
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, v.good composition
- grywlfmrgns rated 36 months ago
- I love this painter, the ultimate sensualist.
- mr-damon rated 38 months ago
- "When Georgia O'Keeffe was in the eighth grade, she asked a daughter of a farm employee what she was going to do when she grew up. The girl said she didn't know. Georgia replied very definitely:
"'I am going to be an artist!' I don't really know where I got my artist idea... I only know that by that time, it was definitely settled in my mind."
- Priestess rated 43 months ago
- GEORGIA OKEEFFEE
"My first memory is of the brightness of light...light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground...very large white pillows..."
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in a farmhouse on a large dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887.
Education for women was a family tradition. Georgia's own mother, Ida had been educated in the East. All the daughters but one became professional women, attesting to her influence on them.
When Georgia was in the eighth grade she asked a daughter of a farm employee what she was going to do when she grew up. The girl said she didn't know. Georgia replied very definitely...
"...I am going to be an artist!"--"I don't really know where I got my artist idea...I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind."
- prettynwitty rated 40 months ago
- I've always wondered why Stieglitz didn't shoot Georgia wearing a German governess outfit, with thigh-high stilletto boots and a bullwhip. Yah-kah!
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