About this artwork
When Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe met, in 1915, he was a celebrated photographer who promoted modern art through his publications and galleries and she, 23 years his junior, was just beginning to gain recognition as a painter. A few years later they entered into a passionate affair, and they eventually married in 1924. Stieglitz felt revitalized by the relationship, and in a growing fascination with seriality he produced over 300 photographs of O’Keeffe to form a kind of composite portrait: in front of her paintings, in isolated fragments, and in the intimate poses of a paramour, as seen here. In 1921 Stieglitz exhibited a print of this image at the Anderson Galleries in New York, in a one-person show that included some 40 portraits of O’Keeffe. Years later, when O’Keeffe looked back at the pictures, she remarked, “It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives.”
For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Alfred Stieglitz
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Title
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1918
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Medium
- Palladium print
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, right center, in graphite: Cream [diagonally] [arrow pointing right]; verso, lower center, in graphite: 8 [?/sideways] / K later? / OK / 19E
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Dimensions
- Image: 24.1 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 25.1 × 20.1 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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Reference Number
- 1949.745A
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/66435/manifest.json
Extended information about this artwork
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