In what Wisconsin city was Georgia O'Keeffe born in 1887?

Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887.

She was born on November 15, 1887, to Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe. Her family lived on a dairy farm near Sun Prairie, a small city east of Madison. This rural setting became the starting point of her American life, although her mature art is more strongly associated with New Mexico.

O'Keeffe later studied and worked in several major cities, including Chicago and New York, before moving permanently to New Mexico. Sun Prairie is sometimes confused with nearby Madison because Madison is the larger, better-known city and the state capital. The birthplace question concerns the city named in biographies, not the broader Madison area.

Today, Sun Prairie preserves local connections to O'Keeffe through historical interpretation and community references to her childhood. Her Wisconsin origins preceded the abstract drawings, flower paintings, skyscrapers, and desert landscapes that made her internationally famous.