Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986 November 15, 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe is born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
1902 - O'Keeffe family moves to Williamsburg, Virginia
1912-1914 - Works as art supervisor and teacher at public schools in Texas
1916 - Works as head of art department at West Texas State Normal College; Makes first trip to New Mexico; O'Keeffe's future husband, Alfred Stieglitz -- a gallery owner and photographer in New York -- presents her first solo exhibition
1918 - O'Keeffe leaves Texas to pursue full-time painting in New York
1925 - The Brooklyn Museum presents O'Keeffe's first museum exhibition
1937 - First stays in the adobe house she later buys at Ghost Ranch, northwest of Santa Fe
1945 - Buys abandoned adobe compound in Abiquiu near Ghost Ranch
1946 - Stieglitz dies
1949 - O'Keeffe moves to New Mexico permanently and continues artistic career at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu
1971 - Loses central vision; completes last unassisted oil painting a year later
1973 - Juan Hamilton, a young ceramic artist, becomes her assistant and companion
1984 - Moves to Santa Fe to live with Hamilton and his family
March 6, 1986 - O'Keeffe dies at age of 98; Her ashes are scattered over northern New Mexico, the place she loved best
Source: The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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