The first daughter in a Wisconsin family of dairy famers with seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) had decided she wanted to be an artist by the age of ten. What she did become – what she made herself with the sheer power of passion and grit – was not merely an artist, but an art pioneer celebrated as the Mother of American Modernism. O'Keeffe pursued her childhood vision with unrelenting focus and dedication, from her early instruction by a local waterco...
