Georgia O'Keeffe—Exhibition at 291
1917
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 19.1 x 24.4 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.)
mount: 53.9 x 45.8 cm (21 1/4 x 18 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.5
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 37D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
456
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Bibliography
1991
Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991: pl. 65.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 456.
2010
Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK—37—D
Wikidata ID
Q64036856
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This view of “An Exhibition of the Recent Work—Oils, Water-Colors, Charcoal Drawings, Sculpture,—By Georgia O’Keeffe of Canyon, Texas,” held from 3 April to 14 May 1917 at 291, includes from left to right: Blue, Green and Red, 1916, Abstraction, 1916, and No. 12 Special, 1916 (Lynes 84, 66 and 117).
This photograph is part of a series of eight images that Stieglitz made of the exhibition and sent to O’Keeffe in Texas. A complete set is at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (93.XM.26.52), bound into a booklet and inscribed, “To Georgia O’Keeffe / 291—/ Series of Proofs / of her Exhibition / 1917 / April 7 —.”
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XB.26.52.4 (inscribed: Fourth Picture: Main Room—Wall, next to door, left)
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1921, New York (no. 56, as The Last Show, 1917)