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Georgia O’Keefe is a famous artist who was born on November 15, 1887. She was born the daughter of two farmers in a little town near Madison Wisconsin called Sun Prairie. Georgia O’Keefe knew that she wanted to be an artist at a young age. “When I was still a little girl, I used to think that since I couldn’t do what I wanted to… at least I could paint as I wanted to, and say what I wanted to when I painted.” Georgia began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago. Right after she began studying, she hit a roadblock. She became ill with typhoid, so she had to stop her education. Getting through that, led her to the Art Student League in New York where she began studying again in 1907. Nobody knew that she would one day become a famous artist, because it was th