What was Georgia O'Keeffe's birthplace near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin?

Georgia O'Keeffe was born on a dairy farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

Her parents, Francis and Ida O'Keeffe, operated the farm where Georgia was born in 1887. The rural setting exposed her to fields, plants, animals, and changing seasonal light, subjects that later became important parts of how people understood her visual world.

O'Keeffe did not remain a Wisconsin farm artist. She studied in Chicago and New York, taught art in Texas and South Carolina, and became associated with American modernism through her enlarged flowers, abstract forms, and Southwestern landscapes.

A common mix-up is to identify New Mexico as her birthplace. New Mexico became her adopted artistic home decades later. She first visited the state in 1929 and eventually lived there permanently, but her birth was in Wisconsin.