OtterKnow Kids EncyclopediaGeorgia O’Keeffe was a wonderful artist who loved to look closely at nature! She painted flowers extra big so that everyone would stop and really look at them. We remember Georgia for showing us how to slow down and see the magic in nature!
Georgia painted giant, colorful flowers that make you feel like you are a little bug looking up at the petals! Later in her life, she moved to the desert in New Mexico, where she painted huge skies, colorful hills, and sandy mountains. She used bright colors to show how the sunlight made the rocks glow. Her paintings are hung in famous museums all over the world!
- Georgia O’Keeffe is often called the “Mother of American Modernism!”
- She lived in the New Mexico desert until she was 98 years old.
- Some of her giant flower paintings are bigger than a grown-up person!
