By Anne W. Semmes

The extraordinary art and of 98 years-long life of “American Modernist Georgia O’Keeffe – From Lush Flowers to the New Mexico Desert,” was spelled out in word and image last Wednesday week at the Riverside Yacht Club at the celebratory 40th anniversary of the Greenwich Decorative Arts Society, with some 110 members and guests attending. Featured speaker was Greenwich-based Janetta Rebold Benton, Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University.

“She is a two-time Fulbright scholar,” introduced Decorative Arts President Ellen Brennan Galvin of Dr. Benton who began her share of O’Keeffe as born in 1887 in a farmhouse of seven children in Wisconsin with her parents as dairy farmers. O’Keefe was “often described as an individualist, independent, self-confident, a d

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