"My week with Anna was transformative. I took the class because of her background and credentials, however what I received was so much more. Her sincere interest in us as artists, coupled with the majesty of landscape transported me to a place of grounding, confidence and passion for the power of creativity." — Susan Thompson, High School Principal
O'Keeffe's Contemporaries: Women Painters Born in the Same Decade
Henrietta Shore, who attended the Art Students League in New York with Georgia O'Keeffe, lived most of her life in the United States. Shore and was drawn to Carmel, California, where she lived for decades.
Born: 1880, Toronto, Canada Died: 1963, San Jose, California Above: "Life," circa 1921, by Shore SEE MORE ART BY SHORE |
Agnes Pelton studied with Athur Wesley Dow, as did O'Keeffe, as well as in Europe and at the Pratt Institute in New York. She visited Mable Dodge Luhan in Taos, N.M., in 1919, a decade before O'Keeffe got there.
Born: 1881, Stuttgart, Germany Died: 1961, Cathedral City, California Above: "Winter," 1933, by Pelton SEE MORE ART BY PELTON |
Helen Torr, known as "Reds," worked alongside other artists, most notably her husband Arthur Dove and their friend Georgia O'Keeffe, to develop an American style of Modernism in the 1920s.
Born: 1886, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died: 1967, Long Island, New York Above: Shell, 1928, by Torr SEE MORE ART BY TORR_ |
Georgia O’Keeffe is the most famous women artist of her generation. Through her association with Alfred Stieglitz and his promotion of her work, she gained early acclaim and notoriety.
Born: 1887, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Died: 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico "Series I, No. 4," 1918, by O'Keeffe "Music, Pink and Blue No. 2," 1918, by O'Keeffe "Tan Clam Shell with Seaweed," 1926, by O'Keeffe |
Photo at top: Anna Koster in Minneapolis for the annual Association of American Museums conference