People I admire II: Georgia O'Keeffe

   

Portrait of the artist by Leonard Baskinin

Georgia O'Keeffe began to be recognised in New York art community in the first decades of 20th century. Women could have art training in America, but  there wasn't still an important artistic figure emboided by a woman. She gained to be one ot the most important modern artists in America and opened the door for women painters in a  world of men, becoming one of the most important cultural icons of her country, before dying in 1986.