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United States. Products. gas ranges, electric ranges, built-in gas cooktops and ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers. O'Keefe and Merritt (often written as O'Keefe & Merritt) was a Los Angeles-based appliance company. Their gas ranges and stand-alone ovens were particularly popular in Southern California in the middle of the 20th Century.
In 1950, Tappan acquired the Los Angeles-based O'Keefe & Merritt Stove Company and used the O'Keefe & Merritt name in the western United States from then until the late 1980s. [4] [5] In 1978, Carl Icahn in his first takeover attempt took a controlling stake in Tappan and forced the sale of the company to Electrolux
Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings ...
Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled, vase of flowers, watercolor on paper, 17 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (45.1 x 29.2 cm), between 1903 and 1905. She joined her family in Virginia in 1903 and completed high school as a boarder at Chatham Episcopal Institute in Virginia (now Chatham Hall) and graduated in 1905. [4] [9] Elizabeth May Willis, who studied at Art ...
August 5, 1998 [2] Designated NMSRCP. February 18, 2000. The Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio is a historic house museum in Abiquiú, New Mexico. From 1943 until her death, it was the principal residence and studio of artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986). [a] It is now part of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which has sites in Santa Fe and Abiquiú.
A small painting of a close-up of a red canna lily was made by O'Keeffe in 1919. The 8 in × 6 in (20.3 cm × 15.2 cm) oil painting depicts the flower against a dark cloudy background. Owned by a private collector, it is on extended loan to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [7] It was stolen from the Santa Fe, New Mexico museum by a security guard ...
20 paintings, 17+ photographs. American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) created a series of 20 paintings and 17 photographs based on her more than nine-week visit to four of the Hawaiian Islands in the Territory of Hawaii in the summer of 1939. Her trip was part of an all-expenses paid commercial art commission from the Philadelphia ...
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is dedicated to the artistic legacy of Georgia O'Keeffe, her life, American modernism, and public engagement. It opened on July 17, 1997, eleven years after the artist's death. It comprises multiple sites in two locations: Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Abiquiu, New Mexico. [1] In addition to the founding Georgia O'Keeffe ...