The Life of Georgia O'Keeffe Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

She was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin at the family farmhouse. Among her earliest memories are cattle and horses, geese, apple trees and fields of wildflowers.

Answer: True

Ida O'Keeffe was intellectually inclined and intent on her children receiving a good education. She often read to them and provided books from which to study drawing. When Georgia was nearly twelve, her mother arranged painting lessons for them.

Answer: True

Georgia went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago at age 17, but only spent one year. She felt the rooms were too dark, and never became interested in the studies of human form. She also studied at the Art Students League in New York.

Answer: Art gallery

Opened by photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1905 at 291 Fifth Avenue, 291 was an abbreviated name for "The Little Galleries of Photo-Secession." He wanted to prove that photography could be art as well. He would later introduce us to the works of Georgia O'Keeffe and many other modern artists.

Answer: His wife

Georgia and Alfred married in 1924 and remained together until his death in 1946.

Answer: New Mexico

Georgia visited northern New Mexico each summer until Stieglitz's death; she then moved there permanently.

Answer: False

She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Gerald Ford, not Jimmy Carter. The Medal of Freedom recognizes individuals who have made an "especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, or to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." The National Medal of Arts is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals or groups, who, in his judgment, "...are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the United States."

Answer: True

This painting is at the Phillips Collection Museum in Washington, D.C.

Answer: Clouds

This series was her last major work.

Answer: False

With more than 3,000 works, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico houses the largest permanent collection of her work.