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 Georgia O'Keeffe
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She has been quoted as saying that she disliked Sun Prairie, but her family moved to Virginia when she was fifteen.
| Georgia married a well known pioneering photographer. Who was it? | Georgia O'Keeffe
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Alfred Stieglitz . Stieglitz had an immense influence on the development of photography, and single-handedly introduced America to the works of Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne. Also edited and published his own, highly respected magazine, "Camera Works".
| Georgia's husband founded and ran which gallery in New York City? | Georgia O'Keeffe
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291 Gallery. PS 122 is a performance art/visual art space, WOW Cafe is a women-specific performance/visual art space, and the Factory was the location of Andy Warhol and his art world cohorts.
| Alfred was obsessed with photographing Georgia since the day their relationship began; roughly how many portrait photos did he take of her from 1918 to 1937? | Georgia O'Keeffe
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300. Alfred took many eroticized portraits of Georgia, including nudes which he took in the deserts of New Mexico.
1925. A Calla Lily painting would sell for $25,000 in 1928, which grounded her in the art community as a successful and talented artist; sadly, the prices made and the extent of sales indicate whether an artist is 'fashionable' and is/was 'successful' or 'talented.'
| What artist contributed a 'place setting' honoring Georgia O'Keeffe in a 'Dinner Party' piece? | Georgia O'Keeffe
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Judy Chicago . Georgia was, in fact, not pleased with this place setting at all. She resented having her work reduced to certain imagery, and while Chicago's piece is fascinating, Georgia would have preferred to be left out of it.
| What is the name of the famous ranch that Georgia visited and eventually bought in New Mexico? | Georgia O'Keeffe
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Ghost Ranch. The ranch is located in a remote area approximately 120 miles north of Albuquerque. Guests at the ranch included D.H. Lawrence, Charles and Anna Lindbergh, and Ansel Adams. Georgia purchased the house where she had been staying at Ghost Ranch in 1940, along with the view of the flat-topped mesa in the Jemez range, called the Pedernal.
March 6, 1986. She died at the age of 98. In accordance with her instructions, she was cremated the next day. Juan Hamilton walked to the top of the Pedernal Mountain and scattered her ashes to the wind - over her beloved "faraway".
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