Georgia O'Keeffe
1918
Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
image: 8.7 x 11.5 cm (3 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.) sheet: 10.1 x 12.6 cm (4 x 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.83
Art Historical Context
In 1918, pioneering photographer Alfred Stiegl captured this intimate platinum print portrait of Georgia OKeeffe, the artist who would become his muse and wife. Titled simply *Georgia O'Kee*, the small-scale image (8.7 x 11.5 cm) exemplifies Stieglitz's mastery of modernist photography. As founder of the Photo-Sec movement, he championed photography as fine art, exhibiting at his New York gallery, 291, where he first encountered O'Keeffe's abstract paintings in 1916. Their personal and professional bond transformed American modernism, with Stieglitz producing over 300 photographs of her betwee...
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 ...