American modern artist Georgia Totto O’Keefe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin to dairy farmer parents. She decided she was going to be an artist when she was only ten years old. She was a prominent figure in the art community way before women could acquire art training in schools in America. She is deemed to have paved the way for women to have a place America’s art community which used to be a man’s world. Her innovative abstract works were among the most famous from 1910 to the 1920s. She did large flower paintings and buildings of New York, totally revolutionizing the craft. When she moved to New Mexico in 1949, she focused on painting representations of its churches, culture and landscape.