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During the early twentieth century, women suffered from discrimination and inferiority. An exception to this case was Georgia O'Keeffe, who captured the attention of the world with her paintings. She was the only female of her generation to be accepted as a professional artist. Art critic Henry McBride noted, "Mona Lisa got but one portrait of herself worth talking about, O'Keeffe got a hundred....Everybody knew the name. She became what is known as a newspaper personality." Georgia O'Keeffe knew exactly what she wanted from life and was not frightened to reach out for it. She left her mark in an artistic field believed to be exclusively for men. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She was a well-behaved, self-disciplined child. At a very early age she decided where life was going to lead her: she was going to be a painter (Berry 23). Not taking in consideration her family's opinion, O'Keeffe started to sketch. One of her first sketches was of a man bending over. She worked on this piece for quite a while, trying to get the position o