Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She was a well-behaved, self-disciplined child. At a very early age she decided where life was going to lead her: she was going to be a painter (Berry 23). Not taking in consideration her family's opinion, O'Keeffe started to sketch.

One of her first sketches was of a man bending over. She worked on this piece for quite a while, trying to get the position o

After graduating from college, O'Keeffe set out to the southwest taking up jobs as an art teacher in different schools and universities. Her journey in Texas and its surrounding states during the years of 1912 to 1916 helped O'Keeffe define her personal style of painting. She spent a great deal of time exploring the wild, empty spaces. She observed the shapes found in nature and translated them into very personal abstractions (Berry 39). O'Keeffe found her greatest inspiration to be the landscapes of this vast and colorful region.

f the legs correctly. But when she turned the drawing upside down, she noticed that the man looked fine with his legs up in the air. O'Keeffe recalled, "I thought it a very funny position for a man, but after all my effort it gave me a feeling of real achievement to have made something-- even if it wasn't what I had intended."

Years later, O'Keeffe also started traveling, painting clouds as seen from above.

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