Georgia O'Keeffe
1918
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
Image: 24.5 × 20.1 cm (9 11/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Classification
palladium print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66469
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The photographer Alfred Stieglitz sought to bring to America examples of the revolutionary developments of modern art in Europe and to provide support as well for progressive artists and photographers who lived and worked in the United States. His New York gallery “291” exhibited work by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Marin, Hartley, and O'Keeffe, who would become Stieglitz's wife. He photographed her hundreds of times over the years, varying the poses and focusing on parts of her body in a t...
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 ...