Georgia O'Keeffe—Exhibition at An American Place
1933
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 18.2 x 24.1 cm (7 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.) mount: 52.8 x 41.8 cm (20 13/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.318
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of Alfred Stieitz's *Georgia O'Keeffe—Exhibition at An American* (1933), a gelatin silver print that captures the artist Georgia O'Keeffe her solo show at Stieglitz's groundbreaking New York gallery. Opened in 1930, An American Place was Stieglitz's final venue dedicated to championing American modernism, free from commercial pressures. This photograph, trimmed to its image edges at 18.2 x 24.1 cm and on a larger 52.8 x 41.8 cm support, freezes a pivotal moment: O'Keeffe, Stieglitz's wife and muse, surrounded by her own bold abstractions during a time of economic h...
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 ...