When was American artist Georgia O'Keeffe born?

Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887. She was born on a farm near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, into a family of dairy farmers, and grew up with several siblings. Her rural upbringing later informed her attention to landscape, natural forms, and the visual rhythms of the countryside.

O'Keeffe became one of the most important American modernist painters of the twentieth century. Her subjects included flowers, skyscrapers, animal bones, and the landscapes of New Mexico. Although she is often associated with the Southwest, that association developed later in her career; her childhood and early education took place mainly in Wisconsin and Virginia.

Some sources describe her birth year incorrectly because biographical summaries sometimes confuse it with dates from her early exhibitions. The date November 15, 1887, is the standard date given in museum and biographical records.

Her long life connected several periods of American art, from early modernism to postwar abstraction and late-career experimentation.