Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. At a young age, she took a liking to art and went to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s. Later, while living in New York, she studied with such artists as William Merritt Chase as a member of the Art Students League. O'Keeffe found an advocate in famed photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz. He showed her work to the public for the first time in 1916 at his gallery 291. Photographer Alfred Stieglitz gave O'Keefe her first gallery show in 1916 and the couple married in 1924. The two formed a professional and personal partnership that lasted until his death in 1946. . O'Keeffe moved to New Mexico…show more content… Music – Pink and Blue II was one of her early works during her exploration with abstract works of art. She completed this painting during her transition from being a teacher in Texas to her move to New York City. Ironically, the work she was so overly criticized for ended up being some of her greatest and most famous works of art, her abstract paintings are what got her introduced her to Alfred Stieglitz. After a friend showed him a series of her work in 1915, he offered to display the paintings in his art gallery, 291 and once she was introduced to the famed gallery not only did her paintings gain great recognition as an abstract artist. She not only made works of art, she allowed herself to become art as her husband would take nude photos of her and crop the photos of her body to the point of abstraction. With this painting being an abstract work of art one could come up with many conclusions about the painting and I think in a way she enjoyed making people think outside of the box and outside of what female artists were supposed to
