Georgia O'Keeffe
1920
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 13 x 11.3 cm (5 1/8 x 4 7/16 in.) mount: 34.2 x 27.3 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.133
Art Historical Context
In 1920, pioneering photographer Alfred Stiegl captured this intimate portrait of his muse and future wife, Georgia O'Kee, in a gelatin silver print. Titled simply *Georgia O'Kee*, the image measures a modest 13 x 11.3 cm on its trimmed sheet, mounted to 34.2 x 27.3 cm, its personal scale. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Alfred Stieglitz Collection it exemplifies Stieglitz's shift from Pictorialist softness toward the sharp clarity of straight photography, a movement he helped define in early 20th-century America. Stieglitz, founder of Gallery 291 in New York, was a tireless advocate ...
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 ...