Ida O'Keeffe

American visual artist

Ida O'Keeffe

Born	Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe (1889-10-23)October 23, 1889 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, US
Died	September 27, 1961(1961-09-27) (aged 71) Whittier, California, US
Other names	Ida Ten Eyck
Education	Columbia University
Family	Georgia O'Keeffe (sister)

Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe (October 23, 1889 – September 27, 1961) was an American visual artist known for oil paintings, watercolors, and monotypes.^[1]^: 6 She was the younger sister of painter Georgia O'Keeffe.

Early life and career

Ida O'Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, on October 23, 1889.^[1]^: 15 She was the third of seven children.^[2] When Ida was 13, the family moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, where O'Keeffe took drawing classes in summer school at the University of Virginia.^[3] With her younger sister Anita and her more famous older sister Georgia, she studied art with local watercolor artist Sara Mann.^[1]^[4] They also had two grandmothers who were artists.^[5]

O'Keeffe's artistic start was as a printmaker. She then briefly worked as a nurse before earning her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.^[2] She painted approximately 70 canvases during her career.^[6] Her major themes included colorful, abstracted landscapes, and naturalistic still lifes.^[7]^[8] A number of her works feature lighthouses.^[3]^[9]^[10] She exhibited some works with her sisters Catherine and Georgia. Georgia gained more fame, partly because of a husband who worked as a well-known photographer and gallerist. O'Keeffe is known to have said, "I'd be famous, too, if I'd have had a Stieglitz."^[2] A 1933 review in a newspaper read "Georgia remains supreme."^[9] O'Keeffe taught art and was chair of the Art Department at Pembroke State College for Indians—today the University of North Carolina at Pembroke—from 1941 to 1942.^[11]

Collections and exhibitions

O'Keeffe's first exhibition was in 1927 at the Opportunity Gallery in New York, where she was identified as Ida Ten Eyck, to avoid being compared to her sister, Georgia.^[7] In 1974, she was featured in an exhibition in Santa Fe.^[12] She was featured in a solo exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art entitled "Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow".^[2]^[5]^[9]^[13] Her works was on display at the Clark Art Institute from July to October 2019.^[14] A number of her works may be found in private collections.^[15]

Death

O'Keeffe died of a stroke on September 27, 1961, in Whittier, California.^[12]^[16]^[17]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Canterbury, Sue; Piñon, Erin; Soriano, Francesca; Stephenson, Lea (2018). Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow. Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art. ISBN 9780300214567.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Julissa Treviño (June 1, 2018). "Ida O'Keeffe Is Finally Getting Her First Solo Museum Exhibition". Smithsonian.com. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
^ ^a ^b John Dorfman. "Ida O'Keeffe: Sister Act". Art & Antiques. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
^ Canterbury, Sue (January–February 2019). "The Other O'Keeffe". The Magazine Antiques: 142–149.
^ ^a ^b "Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow". Dallas Museum of Art. May 30, 2014. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
^ Amy Crawford (December 2018). "Who Was Ida O'Keeffe, Georgia's Lesser-Known, But Perhaps More-Talented, Sister?". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
^ ^a ^b Karen Chernick (December 17, 2018). ""Escaping Georgia's Shadow": Ida O'Keeffe Steps Into the Spotlight". artandobject.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
^ Michael Hardy (December 2018). "In Dallas, Ida O'Keeffe Could Finally Escape Georgia's Shadow". Texas Monthly. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Eve M. Kahn (May 29, 2014). "A Sister in the Shadow of Georgia O'Keeffe". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
^ Laura August (November 9, 2018). "Under A Sister's Shadow: IDA O'Keeffe at DMA". artsandculturetx.com. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
^ Kathleen Monahan (June 3, 2014). "Georgia O'Keeffe's sister called NC home". blogs.lib.unc.edu. Archived from the original on August 10, 2022. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe". JLW Collection. Archived from the original on March 2, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
^ Javier Pes (May 29, 2018). "Georgia O'Keeffe's Sister Ida Was an Artist Too—and Now Her Work Is Finally Emerging From Her Domineering Sibling's Shadow". Artnet. Archived from the original on November 2, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
^ "Ida O'Keeffe: Escaping Georgia's Shadow Celebrates the Career of a Forgotten American Modernist". The Clark. January 16, 2019. Archived from the original on March 16, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
^ Kinsey Gidick. "The Other O'Keeffe". Garden & Gun. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
^ "Ida O'Keefe". The Capital Times. Madison, WI. October 12, 1961. p. 10. Archived from the original on September 5, 2023. Retrieved December 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Jamie Stengle (May 14, 2018). "Another O'Keeffe emerges for exhibit: Georgia's sister Ida". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on May 15, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2019.