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Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in a farmhouse on a large dairy farm. Her parents Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida Totto O'Keeffe were dairy farmers. She was the first girl and the second of seven O'Keeffe children. Education for women was a family tradition. All the daughters but one became professional women, attesting to her influence on them. She attended Town Hall School in Wisconsin and received art instruction from local watercolorist Sarah Mann. When Georgia was in the eighth grade she asked a daughter of a farm employee what she was going to do when she grew up. The girl said she didn't know. Georgia replied very definitely... "...I am going to be an artist!"--"I don't really know where I got my artist idea...I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind." In 1902 her...

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