What did Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 set in 2014?

A record price for a female artist

Georgia O'Keeffe Quiz: Ghost Ranch, Flowers and Desert Hills

This Georgia O'Keeffe quiz walks the red hills of northern New Mexico with the painter of huge flowers and bleached bones. Play 10 interactive questions on close-up blooms, New York skyscrapers, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, Ghost Ranch and Abiquiú, the flat-topped Pedernal mountain, cow skulls, a record auction sale and the museum in Santa Fe.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Country
Which country was Georgia O'Keeffe from?
Flowers
How did she often paint flowers?
Husband
Which photographer did she marry?
City
Which city's skyscrapers did she paint in the 1920s?
State
Which state became her home and subject?
Ranch
Which ranch was one of her homes?
Mountain
Which mountain did she call her private mountain?
Bones
What desert objects did she paint?
Record
What did Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 set in 2014?
Museum
Where is the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which country was Georgia O'Keeffe from?
Answer: United States
She was born in Wisconsin.
Q2: How did she often paint flowers?
Answer: As huge close-ups
Viewers feel inside the bloom.
Q3: Which photographer did she marry?
Answer: Alfred Stieglitz
He ran an important gallery.
Q4: Which city's skyscrapers did she paint in the 1920s?
Answer: New York
She lived in a high-rise hotel.
Q5: Which state became her home and subject?
Answer: New Mexico
She settled there permanently in 1949.
Q6: Which ranch was one of her homes?
Answer: Ghost Ranch
Red cliffs surround it.
Q7: Which mountain did she call her private mountain?
Answer: Cerro Pedernal
Her ashes were scattered there.
Q8: What desert objects did she paint?
Answer: Animal skulls and bones
Cow's Skull is a famous example.
Q9: What did Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 set in 2014?
Answer: A record price for a female artist
It sold for about 44 million dollars.
Q10: Where is the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum?
Answer: Santa Fe
It opened in 1997.

Flowers, Bones and Red Hills

Georgia O'Keeffe, born in Wisconsin in 1887, became famous for painting flowers as huge close-ups, drawing viewers inside the bloom. She married photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who exhibited her work, and in the 1920s she also painted New York skyscrapers.

Visiting New Mexico, she fell in love with its red hills and light, and settled there permanently in 1949, with homes at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiú. She painted animal skulls and bones found in the desert, and the flat-topped Cerro Pedernal, which she called her private mountain.

Her Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for about 44 million dollars in 2014, a record for a female artist at auction. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum opened in Santa Fe in 1997, and her ashes were scattered over the Pedernal.

What This Quiz Teaches

Art fans will enjoy these questions.

How she painted flowers
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Did You Know?

She lived to 98.
She drove a Ford Model A to paint outdoors.
Ghost Ranch now hosts retreats.
Her clothes were simple and black.
Stieglitz photographed her often.