1887:
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe fødes i Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, den 15. November.
1905 - 1906: (18 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe studerer ved The Art Institute of Chicago.
1907- 1908: (20 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe studerer ved Art Students League i New York.
1911- 1918:
- Georgia O'Keeffe underviser ved forskellige skoler (elementary schools, high schools, and colleges) i Virginia, Texas og South Carolina.
1912: (25 år)
- Om sommeren studerer Georgia O'Keeffe ved University of Virginia.
1912 - 1914:
- Georgia O'Keeffe underviser i kunst i Amarillo, Texas.
1913 - 1916:
- Om sommeren underviser Georgia O'Keeffe ved University of Virginia.
1914 - 1915: (27 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe studerer ved Teachers College, Columbia University.
1915: (28 år)
- Alfred Stieglitz udstiller de første 10 kultegninger af Georgia O'Keeffe, i Galleri 291.
- Georgia O'Keeffe har læst Wasily Kandinsky's bog, On the Spiritual in Art, to gange.
1915 - 1916 :
- Georgia O'Keeffe underviser ved Columbia College i Columbia, South Carolina.
1916: (29 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe studerer ved Teachers College, Columbia University.
- Om efteråret flytter Georgia O'Keeffe til Canyon, Texas, for at lede kunstafdelingen ved West Texas State Normal College.
1917: (30 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe's første soloudstilling i Galleri 291, Alfred Stieglitz's galleri.
- På denne udstilling sælger Georgia O'Keeffe sit første værk: Train at Night in the Desert, 1916, for 200 dollar.
(Stieglitz closed her first sale, a spare sepia watercolor of a train puffing across the plains, for $200.)
1918: (31 år)
- Opmuntret af Alfred Stieglitz og med lovning om hans økonomiske støtte, vælger Georgia O'Keeffe at blive fuldtidskunstner. Hun flytter i juni til New York, for at starte sin karriere.
- Den første af mange rejser til Stieglitz familiens hjem i Lake George, New York.
1920erne:
(During the 1920s, O'Keeffe painted a series of architectural pictures that dramatically depict the soaring skyscrapers and aerial views of New York City. But most often, she painted landscapes and botanical studies that were inspired by annual trips to the Stieglitz family summer home in Lake George, New York. In her magnified close-ups of flowers, begun in 1924, O'Keeffe brings the viewer right into the picture. Enlarging the tiniest petals to fill an entire 30 x 40 inch canvas emphasized their shapes and lines and made them appear abstract, when in fact they were based on her observations of nature. Such daring compositions helped establish O'Keeffe's reputation as an innovative modernist.)
1923: (36 år)
- Alfred Stieglitz udstiller 100 værker af Georgia O'Keeffe.
1924: (37 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe gifter sig med Alfred Stieglitz, den 11. december.
1929: (42 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe starter sine sommerbesøg til New Mexico. Hun opholder sig der 3-6 måneder hvert år.
1929 - 1949:
(Toward the end of the decade, the strains of dealing with the New York art world, her growing boredom with Lake George, and her deteriorating relationship with Stieglitz took their toll on her physical and emotional health. In response, she made her first extended trip to New Mexico in 1929. It was a visit that had a lasting impact on her life, and an immediate effect on her work. Over the next twenty years, from 1929 to 1949, she made almost annual trips to New Mexico, staying up to six months there, painting in relative solitude, then returning to New York each winter to exhibit the new work at Stieglitz's gallery. This pattern continued until she moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949.)
1938: (51 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe modtager sin første Honorary Doctorate Degree fra The College of William and Mary.
- Alfred Stieglitz's helbred forværres, da han får et hjerteslag.
1939: (52 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe tilbragte 3 måneder på Hawaii, udsendt af Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Ltd.. Hun skulle male to værker til dem. Det kom der 20 dejlige malerier ud af. Disse vistes 3 February - 17 March, 1940 på An American Place: Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils And Pastels.
1940: (53 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe køber et hus ved Ghost Ranch i New Mexico.
1943: (56 år)
- Retrospectiv udstilling på The Art Institute of Chicago.
1946: (59 år)
- Første retrospektive udstilling til ære for en kvinde på Museum of Modern Art.
- Alfred Stieglitz dør den 13. juli.
- Downtown Gallery begynder at repræsentere tidligere Alfred Stieglitz kunstnere Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, og Georgia O'Keeffe.
1949: (62 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe flytter permanent til New Mexico. Lever i Abiquiu og på Ghost Ranch.
- Udvalgt til National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1950 - 1970:
- Georgia O'Keeffe rejser til lande i Europa og Asien.
(From the 1950s to 1970s, O'Keeffe traveled widely around the world, making trips to the Far East, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and Europe. Flying in airplanes inspired her last two major series—aerial views of rivers, and expansive paintings of the sky viewed from just above the clouds. In both series, as well as in the later patio door pictures, O'Keeffe increased the size of her canvases, sometimes to mural proportions, reflecting perhaps her newly expanded view of the world. The seven works in her Sky Above Clouds series (1962–65) are the most dramatic of her later years. When in 1965 she successfully translated this motif to a monumental canvas measuring 24 feet in length (with the help of assistants), it was an enormous challenge and a special feat for an artist nearing eighty years of age.)
1956: (69 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe på rejse til Peru.
1962: (75 år)
- Udfylder den plads ved American Academy of Arts and Letters der blev vacant da E.E. Cummings døde.
(In 1962, Georgia was elected to the 50 member American Academy of Arts and Letters, the nation's highest honor society for people in the arts.)
1966 - 1986:
(The last two decades of the artist's life were relatively unproductive as ill health and blindness hindered her ability to work.)
1968: (81 år)
- Downtown Gallery var ikke længere eneste repræsentant for Georgia O'Keffe.
1970: (83 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe modtager Gold Medal of Painting fra National Institute of Arts and Letters.
1972: (85 år)
- Georgia O'Keeffe mister sit centrale syn.
1973: (86 år)
- Maler det sidste oliemaleri uden assistenter.
1977: (90 år)
- Præsident Gerald Ford dekorerer hende med Medal of Freedom, landets fornemmeste civile orden.
1985: (97 år)
- Præsident Ronald Reagan dekorerer hende med National Medal of Arts.
1986: (98 år)
- Kort tid før Georgia O'Keeffe's død, bliver et af hendes værker, White Rose, New Mexico, solgt for mere end 1 million dollars, ved en auktion i New York.
(A short time before her death, one of her paintings sold for more than $1 million at a New York auction. The painting was White Rose, New Mexico painted in 1930).
- Den 6. marts dør Georgia O'Keeffe på Saint Vincent's Hospital i Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Georgia O'Keeffe's aske bliver spredt i det New Mexico landskab, som hun i over et halvt århundrede havde elsket.
(Her rich legacy of some 900 paintings has continued to attract subsequent generations of artists and art lovers who derive inspiration from these very American images.)
Tax Court Values Artwork in O'Keeffe Estate (Artikel om fastsættelse af værdien af Georgia O'Keeffe's bo). |