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Georgia O'Keeffe

1918
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
This photograph marks the beginning of the romantic relationship between Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe, which transformed each of their lives and the story of American art. The two met when Stieglitz included O’Keeffe, a then-unknown painter, in her first group show at his gallery 291 in May 1916. A year later, O’Keeffe had her first solo show at the gallery and exhibited her abstract charcoal No. 15 Special, seen in the background here. In the coming months and years, O’Keeffe collaborated with Stieglitz on some three hundred portrait studies. In its physical scope, primal sensuality, and psychological power, Stieglitz’s serial portrait of O’Keeffe has no equal in American art.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
  • Date: 1918
  • Medium: Platinum print
  • Dimensions: Image: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.1 × 19.1 cm)
    Framed: 22 × 18 in. (55.9 × 45.7 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs