Portrait of Georgia, No. 1
1923
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.6 x 9.2 cm (4 9/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1980.70.191
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the National Gallery of Art, where Alfred Stieglitz's *Portrait of Georgia, No 1* (1923) captures intimate moment in photographic history. This gelatin silver print, measuring just 11.6 x 9.2 cm, is the first in a renowned series of over 300 portraits Stieglitz made of wife, the modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe between 1918 and her death in 1986. As a pioneer of photography as fine art, Stieglitz founded the Photo-Secession and championed "straight photography," emphasizing the medium's inherent qualities without manipulation. In this small-scale work from the Alfred Stieglitz Co...
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 ...