'Georgia on My Mind' celebrates modernist artist at Palm Beach Public student art show

The theme of this year's Palm Beach Public art show was "Georgia on My Mind," a tribute to an American modernist painter and draftswoman.

Organized by art teacher Jenn Petti, the May 1 event featured work by each student celebrating the life and art of artist Georgia O'Keeffe.

O'Keeffe's career spanned multiple decades over two centuries.

Called the "Mother of American modernism," O'Keeffe was internationally known for her detailed artwork of natural landscapes, including flowers and the desert.

O'Keeffe, who spent the later stages of her career in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she died at age 98 in 1986, was widely accepted among the elite artists from the fine art world because of her powerful graphic images.

One of her most famous painting was "Summer Days," completed in 1946, which was an oil painting of a desert below a deer skull and wildflowers.

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