Ebook: O'Keeffe

In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art instruction originally conceived by Arthur Wesley Dow. In Bement’s class, the students did not mechanically copy nature, but instead were taught.;Introduction; 1887-1907 early years: the shaping of georgia o'keeffe; 1907-1916 finding her vision in the emerging world of modern art; 1916-1924 "i've given the world a woman"; 1925-1937 the stieglitz years: galleries, exhibitions, commissions; 1938-1949 an artist in her own right; 1949-1973 the new mexico years; 1973-1986 artist emeritus; biography; bibliography; index; notes.