Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887.
She was born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, to Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe. Her family lived on a dairy farm, and she was the second of seven children. The rural landscape of Wisconsin became an early visual influence, although her mature artistic identity developed much later through modernist abstraction.
O'Keeffe studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York before working as an art teacher. Her early training was rooted in academic drawing, but she became known for pushing beyond realistic representation. Her date of birth is sometimes confused with the date of her death, which was March 6, 1986, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Her long career covered more than seven decades and included abstractions, flowers, New York skyscrapers, bones, and New Mexico landscapes.