List of 999 women on the Heritage Floor / Georgia O'Keeffe

This list describes the place setting for Georgia O'Keeffe on the table of Judy Chicago's art installation The Dinner Party . It is part of the list of 999 women on the Heritage Floor who are assigned to the respective place settings on the table. The names of the 999 women are on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which is arranged below the table and belongs to the art installation.

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The installation consists of a three-sided table, each with 13 historical or mythological personalities, thus a total of 39 people, from prehistory to the women's rights movement . These people were assigned a place setting at the table, consisting of an individually designed table runner, an individually designed plate, a goblet, knife, fork, spoon and serviette. The first page of the table is devoted to prehistory up to the Roman Empire , the second to Christianization up to the Reformation and the third from the American Revolution to the women's movement. Each place setting on the table is assigned additional personalities who have received an entry on the tiles of the Heritage Floor, which occupies the space under the table and the center of the space between the sides of the table. This list captures the personalities assigned to Georgia O'Keeffe's place setting. Your seat is on the third side of the table.

Hints

In addition to the names as they are used in German transcription or in scientific usage, the list shows the spelling chosen by Judy Chicago on the tiles.

The information on women who do not yet have an article in the German-language Wikipedia is referenced by the individual references listed under comments . If individual information in the table is not referenced via the main article, additional individual references are given at the relevant point. If there are any discrepancies between the information provided in Wikipedia articles and the descriptions of the work of art on the Brooklyn Museum website , this will also be indicated under Comments.

Place setting for Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe by Marion H. Beckett, about 1923

Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie , Dane County , Wisconsin, one of seven children to farmers Francis and Ida O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe preferred being in nature to society and, despite having a large family, grew up quite isolated. She wanted to become a painter from an early age. Her mother supported her in this and she received drawing lessons as a child. Her first teacher was the watercolorist Sara Mann, who lived nearby. After graduating from high school, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1905 to 1906. She had to drop out of studies for financial reasons. But from 1907 to 1908 she was able to study at the Art Students League in New Yorkfor a year. She found her style when she visited an exhibition in Gallery 291 in 1908andsawdrawings by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin there . In addition to Rodin, she was also able to study works by Picasso, Matisse and Cézanne there and was greatly influenced in her work.

She also had to leave the university after financial difficulties and so she worked as a commercial artist and art teacher between 1908 and 1910. In a summer course in 1912 with Alon Bement , she got to know the work of Arthur Wesley Dow and through him she got her first access to abstract art . She had her first breakthrough after Alfred Stieglitz exhibited some of her works in his gallery 291, which she had painted in black and white during a creative crisis, in a group exhibition in the late spring of 1916. A solo exhibition that Stieglitz organized for O'Keeffe in 1917 had to close three days after it opened, as the United States had entered World War I. O'Keeffe stood for goldfinch model and in the following time an intense love relationship developed between the two. He divorced after 24 years of marriage, and the two married in 1924. Between 1918 and 1937 Stieglitz made more than 300 mostly erotic photographs of O'Keeffe. Through Stieglitz O'Keeffe met many other artists of early American modernism.

After 1918, O'Keeffe began working primarily in oil, having previously preferred the watercolor technique. She began to paint large-format natural forms at close range. Her first large flower painting, Petunia, No. 2 , was created in 1924 and was first exhibited in 1925. Her pictures became more representational, her earlier works were more abstract. As early as the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe was one of the most famous American artists. Their work achieved high prices.

In the spring of 1929 she traveled to Taos , New Mexico, following an invitation . Fascinated by the unspoilt nature, she returned to New Mexico in 1933 after surviving a nervous breakdown. She stayed there regularly for about half a year and the area inspired her to create some of her most famous landscapes. Her reputation and popularity grew in the 1930s and 1940s, and her work was included in exhibitions in and around New York. Goldfinch died in 1946 shortly after O'Keeffe arrived in New Mexico for her summer stay. Most of the next three years she spent in New York to settle his estate. Then she moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949.

A trip around the world that she embarked on at the age of over 80 inspired her to create her cloud images. Cloud formations viewed from the window of an airplane. As her eyesight deteriorated, she worked on oversized cloud landscapes with the help and support of her partner. In the fall of 1970, the Whitney Museum of American Art organized the Georgia O'Keeffe - Retrospective exhibition , the first retrospective of her work in New York since 1946. In the 1970s, O'Keeffe was celebrated by feminist circles as the originator of “female iconography”. she rejected this and refused to participate in any of her projects. Georgia O'Keeffe died on March 6, 1986 in Santa Fe, now completely blind. She is one of the best known American painters of the 20th century. The motifs of her works are often flowers, flames and later also cityscapes, desert landscapes or bones. At the same time, an erotic charisma is perceived in her pictorial landscapes. She is one of the well-known women in art in the 20th century.

Georgia O'Keeffe's place setting is the last place setting on the dinner party table. The plate intended for her is the greatest height to express her success as an artist and her artistic liberation from the constraints surrounding her. The shape of the plate goes back to the flower paintings that she created herself. With this design, Chicago pays tribute to the influence that O'Keefe exerted on later feminist artists and she argued that O'Keefe's work was "crucial for the development of an authentically female iconography". The table runner is designed using the airbrush technique and the colors match those of the plate. A piece of untreated Belgian linen, which is used for art canvases, is attached to a cherry wood frame. The initial letter “G” on the front of the table runner is adorned with antlers, as can also be found in paintings by O'Keeffe.

Surname	Spelling on the tile	Date of birth	cultural spatial assignment	Remarks
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova	Anna Pavlova	1881	Russian Empire	Master dancer of classical ballet .
Augusta Christine Savage	Augusta Savage	1892	United States	Sculptor and fighter against racism .
Barbara Hepworth	Barbara Hepworth	1903	United Kingdom	Sculptor .
Berthe Morisot	Berthe Morisot	1841	France	Painter of Impressionism
Dorothea Lange	Dorothea Lange	1895	United States	Documentary photographer. She is considered a co-founder of documentary photography .
Dorothy Arzner	Dorothy Arzner	1897	United States	Film director, her career ranged from silent era feature films of the late 1920s to the early 1940s. She was one of the few women who made a name for herself as a film director during this time.
Edith Evans	Edith Evans	1888	United Kingdom	English actress known for her stage work but also in films at the beginning and at the end of her career.
Eileen Gray	Eileen Gray	1878	Ireland	Interior architect and designer . She is one of the most important designers of the early 20th century.
Eleonora Duse	Eleonora Duse	1858	Italy	She is one of the great theater actresses of her time. Her playing was subtle and not very theatrical and is considered to be groundbreaking for modern theater. She embodied mostly suffering, but strong-willed female characters.
Elisabet Ney	Elizabeth Ney	1833	German Empire , United States	At the age of 39, she emigrated to Texas with her husband Edmund Montgomery, where she became a pioneer in art development.
Emily Carr	Emily Carr	1871	Canada	Canadian artist and writer, heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast. One of the first female painters in Canada to adopt a modernist and post-impressionist style of painting.
Frida Kahlo	Frida Kahlo	1907	Mexico	Painter. She is one of the most important representatives of a popular development of Surrealism , although her work sometimes shows elements of the New Objectivity .
Gabriele Münter	Gabriele Münter	1877	German Empire	Painter of Expressionism , next she drew and worked in the field of printing graphics .
Gertrude Käsebier	Gertrude Kasebier	1852	United States	Photographer . She is considered to be one of the most important representatives of pictorialism .
Hannah Höch	Hannah Hoch	1889	German Empire	Painter, graphic artist and collage artist of Dadaism .
Harriet Hosmer	Harriet Hosmer	1830	United States	Sculptor.
Ida Kamińska	Ida Kaminska	1899	Kingdom of Poland	Jewish - Polish actress .
Imogen Cunningham	Imogen Cunningham	1883	United States	Photographer who is counted among the "classics" of modern photography of the 20th century. Cunningham was a founding member of group f / 64 .
Isadora Duncan	Isadora Duncan	1877	United States	Dancer and choreographer . She pioneered modern expressive symphonic dance , developed a new sense of body and movement based on the Greek ideal of beauty , and was the first to perform classical concert music as a dance.
Julia Margaret Cameron	Julia Cameron	1815	United Kingdom	Started photography at the age of 48. With extraordinary portraits and religious-romantic scenes, she became the most important British photographer of the Victorian era .
Julia Morgan	Julia Morgan	1872	United States	Architect known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
Katharine Hepburn	Katharine Hepburn	1907	United States	Actress , four times Oscar for Best Actress , voted Greatest American Actress of the 20th Century by the American Film Institute .
Käthe Kollwitz	Käthe Kollwitz	1867	German Empire	Graphic artist , painter and sculptor , is one of the most famous German artists of the 20th century
Louise Nevelson	Louise Nevelson	1899	United States , Russian Empire	Sculptor and painter .
Marie Bashkirtseff	Marie Bashkirtsev	1858/1860	Russian Empire , France	Painter, writer, philosopher.
Marie Laurencin	Marie Laurencin	1883	France	Poet and painter , muse of the poet Guillaume Apollinaire .
Martha Graham	Martha Graham	1894	United States	Dancer , choreographer and dance teacher. Graham is considered an innovator of modern dance in the professional world .
Mary Cassatt	Mary Cassatt	1844	United States , France	Graphic artist and painter of Impressionism .
Mary Louise McLaughlin	Mary Louise McLaughlin	1847	United States	Porcelain painter and ceramist.
Maya Deren	Maya Deren	1917	Ukraine , United States	Avantgarde - director , dancer and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s.
Natalija Sergejewna Goncharova	Natalia Goncharova	1881	Russian Empire	Painter belonging to the Russian avant-garde . She contributed significantly to the artistic development process in Russia.
Paula Modersohn-Becker	Paula Modersohn-Becker	1876	German Empire	Painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism .
Rosa Bonheur	Rosa Bonheur	1822	France	Animal painter of naturalism or realism .
Sarah Bernhardt	Sarah Bernhardt	1844	France	Actress , is considered the most famous actress of her time and was one of the first world stars.
Sonia Delaunay-Terk	Sonia Delaunay	1885	France , Ukraine	Painter and designer . She is considered a representative of geometric abstraction .
Sophia Hayden	Sophia Haydn	1868	United States	First woman to participate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture program and pioneer women in the architectural profession.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp	Sophie Taeuber-Arp	1889	Switzerland	Painter , sculptor , textile designer , architect and dancer of avant-garde .
Suzanne Valadon	Suzanne Valadon	1865	France	Painter of modernity . She is the mother of the painter Maurice Utrillo .