Early Life and Artistic Foundations Georgia Totto O’Keeffe, a name synonymous with American modernism, emerged from the unassuming landscape of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887. Born into a family of Irish Catholic farmer Francis O'Keeffe and Dutch-Hungarian Episcopalian Ida Totto O'Keeffe, young Georgia displayed an artistic inclination early on, deciding by age ten that she would dedicate her life to art. This determination was nurtur…