Sun Prairie is the Birthplace of Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe Memorial Highway
A portion of State Highway 19 between Sun Prairie and Marshall has been designated as the Georgia O'Keeffe Memorial Highway, honoring the artistic accomplishments and contributions of Wisconsin painter Georgia O'Keeffe.
Traditionally in Wisconsin, highways and roads can be named for outstanding individuals with direct ties to the state. O'Keeffe lived on a dairy farm in Sun Prairie until she was 15 and attended Town Hall School, Sacred Hearts Academy and Madison High School. Best known for her large floral motifs and paintings of desert landscape with hints of surrealism, O'Keeffe has been called an iconic American painter and one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Her work is currently housed in the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as in such prominent museums as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and Minneapolis's Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum among many others.