On what date was American artist Georgia O'Keeffe born?

Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

She was the second of seven children in a farming family, and her early rural surroundings later became an important part of how biographers understood her visual imagination. O'Keeffe showed an interest in art while young and received art instruction during her school years.

Her birth date is sometimes confused with the date of her death or with dates associated with her major exhibitions. O'Keeffe lived through a period when American art moved from academic realism toward abstraction, and she became one of the best-known figures in that transition.

The Wisconsin birthplace also connects her to the American Midwest, although her mature reputation is strongly associated with New York and New Mexico. She eventually became famous for paintings of flowers, bones, skyscrapers, and desert landscapes, but her career began with a conventional late-nineteenth-century American childhood.