Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in a farmhouse on a large dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. Her education, unusual for women of her day, and work took her to many states including Virginia, Illinois, New York, South Carolina, Texas, and New Mexico. Her first solo show was in 1917. She said of her floral paintings, "Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not." Do to failing eyesight, O’Keeffe would for the most part stop painting in 1972. Georgia O’Keeffe would die at age 98 in March of 1986. She was one of the premier artists of the 20th century.

Passionate would be word you could use to describe the colors in some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings. The “red” paintings – Red Poppy, Red Canna, The Red Hills, Grey Sky, White Shell With Red – evoke something powerful within the viewer. The same can be said of her purples and whites.

If you’d like a bit of the Old West for your home décor, and want it to be O’Keeffe, take a look at some of her skull paintings. Her enthrallment with skulls began in the early 1930s, after she found a pile of bones at a dude ranch on one of her summer trips. Horse's Skull With White Rose, Mule Skull and Turkey Feathers and Antelope are examples of these.

See more Georgia O’Keeffe art prints here.