Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso
1931
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.8 × 24 cm (3 7/8 × 9 7/16 in.) mount: 38.8 x 50.9 cm (15 1/4 x 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.275
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Georgia O'Keeffeorso* (1931) is a striking gelatin silver print that captures the intimate curves of his wife's body in a close-up view, transforming human form into abstract sculpture. Measuring a modest 9.8 × 24 cm on a larger 38.8 × 50.9 cm mount, photograph exemplifies Stieglitz's mastery black-and-white photography during the early 20th. As a pioneer of pictorialism and straight photography, he championed modernism through his New York galleries, An American Place and 291, where he first exhibited O'Keeffe's paintings. Taken late in their marriage, the image reflects ...
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 ...