In which U.S. state was Georgia O'Keeffe born?

Georgia O'Keeffe was born in Wisconsin.

Her birthplace was Sun Prairie, a community near Madison in south-central Wisconsin. She was born there in 1887 and grew up in a large family connected to farming. The setting was far from the desert landscapes with which she later became strongly associated.

O'Keeffe received early art instruction and eventually studied in Chicago and New York. Her artistic identity developed through several phases, including academic training, abstraction, flower paintings, city views, and later work inspired by the American Southwest.

People sometimes associate O'Keeffe’s birthplace with New Mexico because that state became central to her mature career and public image. However, she did not begin life there. She first encountered New Mexico in 1917, visited repeatedly, and later made it her permanent home. Wisconsin therefore identifies her origin, while New Mexico identifies the landscape most closely linked with her later work.