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Discover how a little girl raised on a dairy farm grew up to become the first woman ever to have an exhibition of their entire life s work at the Museum of Modern Art in this addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Who Was series. Georgia O Keeffe is famously known for her colorful, large paintings of flowers, but this artist s portfolio expands far beyond Jack-in-the-pulpits. In this book, young readers will learn about O Keeffe s childhood in Wisconsin and her years as a talented art school teacher. Her years as an artist in both New York and New Mexico, two areas that are heavily represented in her artwork, reveal O Keeffe s influences. Explore the adventures that inspired O Keeffe s paintings of skyscrapers, barns, skulls, flowers, and made her into an American art icon of the twentieth century.