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Georgia O'Keeffe

1925–27
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 757
This bust of O'Keeffe (1887–1986) is one of more than seventy-five portraits Lachaise created in the 1920s, many of famous figures in the art and literary worlds. In 1927 he also sculpted a portrait of Alfred Stieglitz, O'Keeffe's husband and the gallery owner who showed Lachaise's work in New York that year.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Artist: Gaston Lachaise (American (born France) Paris 1882–1935 New York)
  • Date: 1925–27
  • Medium: Alabaster
  • Dimensions: 23 × 8 1/4 × 12 in. (57.8 × 19.7 × 31.1 cm)
    Weight: 70 lb. (31.8 kg)
  • Classification: Sculpture
  • Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.92.4
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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Seated Woman With Arms Raised, Gaston Lachaise American, Gray crayon on paper
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1924
Head of a Woman, Gaston Lachaise American, Crayon on paper
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