On what date was Georgia O'Keeffe born?

Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887.

Her birth took place near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, where she grew up in a large farming family. The date places her in the late nineteenth-century generation that came of age during the rapid development of modern art in the United States and Europe.

O'Keeffe’s career stretched across much of the twentieth century. She studied art in Chicago and New York, taught in Texas and Virginia, and gained national attention after Alfred Stieglitz exhibited her abstract charcoal drawings in 1916. She eventually became famous for paintings of flowers, landscapes, bones, and architectural forms.

The date is sometimes confused with her death date, March 6, 1986. O'Keeffe lived to be 98, dying in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her long career made her one of the most influential American artists of the modernist period.