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Georgia O'Keeffe

1887 - 1986

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. From 1905, when O'Keeffe began her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, until about 1920, she studied art or earned money as a commercial illustrator or a teacher to pay for further education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgia O'Keeffe has received more than 6,745,136 page views. Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia. Georgia O'Keeffe is the 209th most popular painter (down from 126th in 2019), the 599th most popular biography from United States (down from 295th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Painter.

Georgia O'Keeffe is most famous for her paintings of flowers, skulls, and other subjects.

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  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 209 out of 2,023. Before her are Raoul Dufy, Aristide Maillol, Joaquín Sorolla, John William Waterhouse, Alexandre Cabanel, and John Everett Millais. After her are Dieric Bouts, Paul Delvaux, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Antoine-Jean Gros, H. R. Giger, and Pierre Bonnard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 26. Before her are Saint-John Perse, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, James B. Sumner, Felix Yusupov, Georg Trakl, and Henry Moseley. After her are Ruth Benedict, Leopold Ružička, Nadia Boulanger, Wolfgang Köhler, Nikolai Vavilov, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz. Among people deceased in 1986, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 20. Before her are Frank Herbert, Urho Kekkonen, Henry Moore, Celâl Bayar, Jaroslav Seifert, and Edward Adelbert Doisy. After her are Cary Grant, Albert Szent-Györgyi, James Rainwater, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Erich Koch, and Samora Machel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 599 out of 20,380. Before her are Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Robert Kardashian (1944), Ellen Burstyn (1932), Sugar Ray Robinson (1921), Jack Kilby (1923), and Allen Ginsberg (1926). After her are Jim Jarmusch (1953), Art Garfunkel (1941), Goldie Hawn (1945), Ellen G. White (1827), Ice-T (1958), and Jada Pinkett Smith (1971).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Georgia O'Keeffe ranks 5. Before her are Jackson Pollock (1912), Mary Cassatt (1844), Man Ray (1890), and Edward Hopper (1882). After her are Grant Wood (1891), Richard Serra (1939), Norman Rockwell (1894), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Frederic Edwin Church (1826), Joseph Kosuth (1945), and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834).

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