Georgia O'Keeffe, probably 1918

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Remarks

O’Keeffe suggested that this photograph and Key Set numbers 518–522 were made soon after she arrived in New York in 1918: “My hands had always been admired since I was a little girl—but I never thought much about it. He [Stieglitz] wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow—in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways—also my head—and I had to turn this way and that” (Georgia O’Keeffe in Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz [1978]).

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.61.9

Inscription

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949

by later hands, center verso, in graphite: rough; lower center verso: K / OK / 40A; on mount, lower left verso: OK 40A

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Bibliography

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 517.

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