O'Keefe

O'Keefe is an Irish surname meaning "descendant of Caomh" (gentle or kind).

The name is most famously associated with Georgia O'Keefe, the American modernist painter known for her large-scale flower paintings and Southwestern landscapes.

The spelling O'Keeffe (with double f) is more common but both appear.

artist

Georgia

Name shared by country and state

Santa Fe · modernism · paintings · Southwest · bones · landscapes · petals · canvases · American · magnified

surname

Irish

Of the Emerald Isle

  • CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
  • clanRelated group sharing ancestry
  • GaelicCeltic linguistic tradition

heritage · genealogy · ancestry · family · lineage · patronymic · descendant · emigrant · Cork · Kerry

journalism

James

Traditional masculine name

exposé · activist · controversial · hidden camera · investigation · media · provocateur · whistleblower · videos · confrontational

Opposites
artistic style and movement

O'KeefeMarcel Duchamp

Urinal-as-art provocateur

Andy Warhol · Roy Lichtenstein

subject matter and aesthetic

O'KeefeEdward Hopper

Ashcan School · Jacob Lawrence · Diego Rivera · cityscapes

political journalism and activism

O'KeefeMichael Moore

Sacha Baron Cohen · Mother Jones · Rachel Maddow

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G