Georgia O'Keeffe
1928
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.5 × 8.8 cm (4 1/2 × 3 7/16 in.) mount: 34.6 × 27.2 cm (13 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.230
Art Historical Context
In 1928, pioneering photographer Alfred Stieglitz captured this intimate gelatin silver print portrait of his wife, the renowned modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Titled simply *Georgia O'Keeffe*, the small, trimmed image (11.5 × 8.8 cm) is mounted on a larger 34.6 × 27.2 cm sheet, emphasizing its delicate scale and personal nature. Part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the National Gallery of Art, it exemplifies Stieglitz's lifelong series of over 300 photographs of O'Keeffe, begun in 1917, which blend portraiture with abstraction. Stieglitz, a founder of modern photography in America...
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 ...