Georgia O'Keeffe and Waldo Frank
1920
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.1 x 10.1 cm (3 9/16 x 4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.186
Art Historical Context
In 1920, pioneering photographer Alfred Stiegl captured an intimate moment between his future wife, Georgia O'Keeffe—the iconic modernist painter—and writer Waldo Frank in this small gelatin silver print (9.1 x 10.1 cm). Titled *Georgia O'Keeffe and Waldo Frank*, the image offers a rare glimpse into the vibrant intellectual circles of New York City's avant-garde scene. Stieglitz, a of the Photo-Sec movement, championed photography as a fine art, blurring lines between snapshot and masterpiece through his precise compositions and emotional depth. The gelatin silver print medium, popular in the...
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 ...