Georgia O'Keeffe

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1918

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946

The photographer Alfred Stieglitz sought to bring to America examples of the revolutionary developments of modern art in Europe and to provide support as well for progressive artists and photographers who lived and worked in the United States. His New York gallery “291” exhibited work by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Marin, Hartley, and O’Keeffe, who would become Stieglitz’s wife. He photographed her hundreds of times over the years, varying the poses and focusing on parts of her body in a totally modern approach to the portrait. In Georgia O’Keeffe, the subject seems as confident, monumental, and enigmatically beautiful as her works, one of which appears behind her.

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Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Alfred Stieglitz
Title: Georgia O'Keeffe
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1918
Medium: Platinum print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: 11 [?]; verso, upper right, in graphite: [one perpendicular line]; verso, upper right, in graphite: 11 visi [?] de [?]; verso, center, in graphite: [scribbles]; verso, right center, in graphite: [four perpendicular lines] verso, left center, in graphite: [one perpendicular line] K [?/backwards] / head [?] white [?] [two words crossed out/sideways]; verso, right center, in graphite: Are [?] all
Dimensions: Image: 24.5 × 20.1 cm (9 11/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.755
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Severson, Douglas G. 2005. “Alfred Stieglitz’s Palladium Prints and Their Treatment by Edward Steichen.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, p. 74–79, fig. 1.
Cuno, James and Eloise W. Martin. 2009. “Art Institute of Chicago: Pocketguide.” Publications Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. p. 52.

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Portrait Photograph,” January 1-March 2, 1975.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Platinum Prints from the Permanent Collection,” January 15-March 20, 1977. (Kathleen Lamb)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Stieglitz Portraits, 1918-1922,” March 5-June 12, 1988.
Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Museum of Art, “In the American Grain,” February 8–April 27, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Hot Streaks,” February 21–May 2, 2004. (David Travis)
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction,” September 17, 2009–January 17, 2010; traveled to The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., February 6–May 9, 2010; and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 28–September 12, 2010. (New York and Washington, D.C. only) (Barbara Haskell)

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