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Birth Date
Georgia O'Keeffe was born this day in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. -
O’Keeffe family moves to Williamsburg, Virginia
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Georgia joins family in Williamsburg, Virginia
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Attends Chatham Episcopal Institute in Virginia
In her senior year she serves as art editor of the school yearbook Mortar Board. Georgia graduates June 1905. -
Attends School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Studies with John Vanderpoel. During this time she lives with her uncle and aunt, Charles and Alletta Totto. -
Attended the Art Students League, New York
Here she studied with William Merritt Chase, F. Luis Mora, and Kenyon Cox. January 1908: attends exhibition of works on paper by Auguste Rodin at The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession that was operated by Alfred Stieglitz and there she sits for portrait by a fellow student, Eugene Speicher. -
Awarded Art Students League's 1907-1908 Still Life Scholarship
As a scholarship winner in the summer of 1908 she attended the League’s Outdoor School at Lake George, New York. -
Moves to Chicago to work as a free-lance commercial artist
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Attends drawing class at University of Virginia, Charlottesville
She is taught by Alon Bement, of Teachers College, Columbia University, who introduces her to ideas of his mentor, artist-teacher Arthur Wesley Dow, head of Art Department at Teachers College. -
Moves to Amarillo, Texas
Here she is supervisor of drawing and penmanship in public schools and holds this position through spring 1914. -
Enrolls at Teachers College, Columbia University
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Moves to Columbia, South Carolina
Where she teaches art at Columbia College. -
Ceates a series of charcoal abstractions
She sends some to her friend Anita Pollitzer in New York. -
Anita Pollitzer takes group of O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawings to Alfred Stieglitz
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Her mother dies in Charlottesville
Ida O'Keeffe -
Stieglitz opens a group show at 291 that includes some of O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawings
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Moves to Texas to begin a teaching job
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Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe's first one-person show of her work at 291
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Moves to New York
She moves at the request of Alfred Stieglitz and moves into studio apartment at 114 East 59th Street -
Alfred Stieglitz moves in with O'Keeffe
This is after he leaves his wife Emmeline Obermeyer Stieglitz, they had been married since 1893. -
Her father dies in Petersburg, Virginia
Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe -
Alfre Stieglitz opens an exhibit of O'Keeffe's work
Alfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans: 159 Paintings, Photographs & Things, Recent & Never Before Publicly Shown, by Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, Paul Strand, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz at The Anderson Galleries. -
Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1926" at The Intimate Gallery
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"Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe" opens at The Brooklyn Museum
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Stieglitz opens O’Keeffe Exhibition at The Intimate Gallery.
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Stieglitz announces sale of six O’Keeffe calla lily paintings
Priced at $25,000 -
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1928 at The Intimate Gallery.
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O'Keeffe leave for Santa Fe, New Mexico
She goes with artist Rebecca Strand, wife of photographer Paul Strand -
Paintings by 19 Living Americans opens at the Museum of Modern Art
It includes five works by O'Keeffe -
Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: 27 New Paintings, New Mexico, New York, Lake George, Etc." at An American Place
They include early paintings of New Mexico crosses and of San Francisco de Assís Church in Ranchos de Taos -
Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe: 33 New Paintings (New Mexico) at An American Place
It is the first exhibition to have her paintings of bones -
O’Keeffe is commissioned for $1,500 to paint a mural for a powder room in Radio City Music Hall
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She abandons the Radio City Music Hall mural and stops painting entirely
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings—New & Some Old"at An American Place
O’Keeffe also becomes very sick and moves to the New York apartment of her sister, Anita Young. -
Is admitted to hospital due to suffering from psychoneurosis
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Begin drawing at Lake George
This is after she has recovered from psychoneurosis. -
Begins painting after 13-month hiatus
On January 29, Stieglitz opens Georgia O’Keeffe at “An American Place,” it includes 44 Selected Paintings from 1915-1927. -
Visits Ghost Ranch, a dude ranch north of Abiquius, New Mexico for the first time
The beautiful landscapes around Ghost Ranch gives her new inspiration for her art work. -
Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Paintings (1919-1934)" at An American Place
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1935" at An American Place
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O'Keeffe receives $10,000 commission from Elizabeth Arden
It is a large painting for a new exercise salon in New York. -
Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: New Paintings" at An American Place
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: The 14th Annual Exhibition of Paintings With Some Recent O’Keeffe Letters" at An American Place
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O’Keeffe goes to Williamsburg, Virginia to receive honorary degree from College of William and Mary
This was the first of many she would recieve throughout her lifetime. -
O’Keeffe receives commission from advertising agency N. W. Ayer
It is for her to paint a piece for a Dole Company promotional campaign in Hawaii. -
Returns to New Mexico
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils And Pastels" at An American Place
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O’Keeffe travels back to Hawaii
She stays there until April -
Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels" at An American Place
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Stieglitz opens "Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe" at An American Place
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1941" at An American Place
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O’Keeffe moves with Stieglitz to 59 East 54th Street
This is her last New York address -
Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings-1942-1943" at An American Place
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings—1943" at An American Place
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1944" at An American Place
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O'Keeffe purchases Abiquiu property from Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe
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Stieglitz opens "Georgia O’Keeffe" at An American Place
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O’Keeffe begins organizing the retrospective, Georgia O’Keeffe, to open at The Museum of Modern Art in May
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Alfred Stieglitz, O'Keefe's husband dies
He was an American photographer and modern art promoter. Him and O'Keeffe married in 1924. -
O’Keeffe returns to New York (where she primarily lives until 1949)
She works in New York to settle the Stieglitz Estate, which ends in the distribution of his art collection to numerous public institutions. -
She leaves New York to live permanently in New Mexico
She spends every winter and spring in Abiquiu and every summer and fall at Ghost Ranch. -
O’Keeffe begins organizing "Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings 1946-1950"
It opened in October at An American Place. -
O’Keeffe travels to Mexico for six weeks
She goes with Spud Johnson, Elliott and Aline Porter. This trip included a drive to Yucatán with Rose and Miguel Covarrubias and meeting Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo. -
O'Keeffe travels around the world
She travels January through April to Southeast Asia, the Far East, India, the Middle East, and Italy. -
O’Keeffe helps organize "Georgia O’Keeffe: Forty Years of Her Art"
It was a retrospective that opened in October at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum. -
O'Keeffe travels to Asia for the second time
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She helps organize and install her last exhibition
"Georgia O’Keeffe: Recent Paintings and Drawings" opened in early April at The Downtown Gallery. -
At Ghost Ranch she painted her largest clouds picture
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She attends the opening of the retrospective "Georgia O’Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966"
It is at the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art in Fort Worth. -
She installs the retrospective, "Georgia O’Keeffe"
At the Whitney Museum of American Art. -
She loses her central vision and retains only peripheral sight
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She completes her last unassisted oil painting
She continues to work in oil with assistance until 1977. She works unassisted in watercolor and charcoal until 1978 and in graphite until 1984. -
She meets potter and sculptor Juan Hamilton
He becomes her assistant, her close friend and representative. He is a travel companion and facilitator, making the completion of several projects possible, including Viking Press publication Georgia O’Keeffe (1976) and Perry Miller Adato video Georgia O’Keeffe (1977) -
She receives the Medal of Freedom from President Gerald Ford
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O’Keeffe moves with Juan Hamilton and family
They move to a large house in Santa Fe, Sol y Sombra to be closer to medical facilities -
She is awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Ronald Reagan
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Died at age 98
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Museum Opening
Opening of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This is 11 years after her death.
