Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in a farmhouse near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She grew up as the second of seven children in a family of dairy farmers. Her father, Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe, and her mother, Ida Totto O'Keeffe, raised her in this rural setting. By the age of ten, she had already decided that her life would be dedicated to art. This early certainty was nurtured throu…