Born this week....Georgia O'Keefe

On November 15, Georgia O'Keefe would have been 133 years old.  I am not just a fan of her work, but also the manner in which she lived her life.  The shapes of bright and vivid color on large canvases, of flowers so large that it is not obvious it is a flower.  We, the viewer, just enjoy the feeling of being mesmerized by enormous, gorgeous works of art.  I loved that she worked to find her personal style.  She was not content to paint just like everyone else was.  Toward the end of the 1920s she traveled around the US looking for inspiration; studied at several art schools and with well-known artists.  I greatly admire how she made a decision to learn and set out doing just that during a time when women didn't routinely have much autonomy and it was almost unheard of for a woman to earn her own money and have a career.