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Sat 03 Mar 2007From New York to New MexicoGeorgia O'Keeffe held her own in the male-dominated world of American art, producing paintings of startling originality drawn from motifs in nature. Now an exhibition of her work can be seen at Imma, writes Aidan DunneGeorgia O'Keeffe is an iconic figure in the history of American art: a strong, independent woman who held firmly to her own course in an art world dominated by men; a married woman who spent much of every year alone, in the relative solitude that her work demanded; a painter of startling vision and originality. She was also partly of Irish descent: her paternal grandparents had emigrated from Cork in 1848 (her mother's family were of Hungarian extraction). Yet her paintings have rarely been exhibited in any numbers on this side of the Atlantic. All the more reason to welcome Imma's new show, Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction, which features 28 works spanning her entire career.