Georgia Totti O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887—March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She is typically associated with the American Southwest and particularly New Mexico where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesizes abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors, and she often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
Recommended books on Georgia O'Keeffe: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life by Roxana Robinson; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections by Barbara Buhler Lynes; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Washington Square Press; Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, Princeton University Press; Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, W. W. Norton; O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection, Thames & Hudson; O'Keeffe At Abiquiu, Harry N. Abrams; Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert (Basic Art), Taschen; Georgia O'Keeffe : Catalogue Raisonne, National Gallery Washington; Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction, Skira.