Georgia O'Keeffe—Breasts
1919
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.5 x 17.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.) mat: 49.3 x 32.6 cm (19 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.109
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Georgia O'KeeffeBreasts* (1919) is an intimate gelatin silver print capturing the renowned artist Georgia OKeeffe, Stieitz's muse and future wife. As a pioneering photographer and gallery owner, Stieglitz photography to fine art, often exploring the human form with a modernist sensibility that emphasized abstraction and emotional depth. This close-up study, measuring 22.5 x 17.2 cm, reveals his fascination with O'Keeffe's contours, transforming a personal portrait into a universal meditation on beauty and vulnerability. The gelatin silver print medium, popular in the early...
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 ...