Georgia O'Keeffe
1924
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.2 x 8.1 cm (4 7/16 x 3 3/16 in.) mount: 31.8 x 24.8 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.185
Art Historical Context
In 1924, pioneering photographer Alfred Stieglitz captured an intimate portrait of his wife, the renowned modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe, in this gelatin silver print. Titled simply *Georgia O'Kee*, the small-scale image (trimmed to 11.2 x 8.1 cm) exemplifies Stieglitz's mastery of photography as fine art. As founder of Gallery 291 in New York, Stieglitz championed modernism and was instrumental in introducing European avant-garde ideas to America, while fiercely promoting O'Keeffe's abstracted floral paintings that redefined American art. This photograph is part of Stieglitz's extensive ...
About the Artist
Alfred Stieglitz · 1864–1946
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a pioneering American photographer, art dealer, publisher, and advocate for the Modernist movement who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to German Jewish immigrant parents, Stieglitz spent his formative years studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, where he discovered photography in ...