Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. She gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes drawn from the places and environments in which she lived.
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Unable to afford to continue her art studies, O'Keeffe returned to Chicago in 1908 to work as a commercial artist.
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an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements
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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
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she helped to establish the American modernism movement
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