O'Keeffe facts

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.” 
- Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe, Blue Flower, 1918. Pastel on paper mounted on cardboard, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm) Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; gift of The Burnett Foundation. © Private collection via whitney.org

• O’Keeffe lived from 1887 to 1986. She was 98 years old when she died.
• She is known for her paintings of flowers, bones, shells, stones, leaves, trees, mountains, and other natural forms.
• She made over 200 flower paintings.
• In 1928, six of her calla lily paintings sold for $25,000, which was the largest amount ever paid at the time for a group of paintings by a living American artist.
• In 1929, O’Keeffe took a vacation to Taos, New Mexico where she fell in love with the open skies and sun-drenched landscape.
• She was given a one-woman exhibition in 1946 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York — the first given by that museum to a woman.
• Her major retrospective in 1970 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, placed her as one of the most important and influential American painters.
• O’Keeffe’s vision deteriorated in 1971 and she withdrew from artistic life.
• She resumed painting in 1973 when she met Juan Hamilton, a young ceramic artist, who assisted her with her work.
• O’Keeffe’s illustrated autobiography GEORGIA O’KEEFFE was a best seller in 1976.

(Completely copied from - http://www.funartwine.com/3/post/2012/03/interesting-facts-about-georgia-okeeffe.html)