 | |  | | Georgia O'Keeffe is the best known and most successful American woman painter. Her larger-than-life, almost abstract paintings of flowers are world famous. Her life took a decisive turn when Alfred Stieglitz, a well-known photographer and owner of the avant-garde New York gallery "291," became passionately interested in her art and organized her first exhibition in 1917. She eventually married Stieglitz. In 1929, after a successful decade of work and shows in New York, O'Keeffe felt the perfect landscape (and perhaps escape) for her was New Mexico. Here she began to paint her great mythical images of nature, uninhabited by humans. |