#ARTHUR STIEGLITZ PROFESSIONAL#
The ups and downs of their personal and professional relationship were recorded in Stieglitz’s celebrated photographs of O’Keeffe ( 1997.61.12), taken over the course of twenty years (1917–37). The two lived together almost immediately, and were married in 1924. From then until his death in 1946, Stieglitz vigorously promoted her work in twenty-two solo exhibitions and numerous group installations. With his encouragement and promise of financial support, O’Keeffe abandoned teaching and arrived in New York in June 1918, to begin a career as an artist. After supposedly exclaiming, “At last, a woman on paper!” he exhibited her drawings at the 291 gallery, where the works of many avant-garde European and American artists and photographers were introduced to the American public. It was through these drawings that O’Keeffe came to the attention of the prominent photographer and New York gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz in January 1916. These daring works of 1915–16 ( 50.236.2) orchestrated line, shape, and tone into abstract compositions.
#ARTHUR STIEGLITZ SERIES#
During this period, she produced a remarkable series of charcoal drawings that led her art-and her career-in a new direction. She became an art teacher and taught in various elementary schools, high schools, and colleges in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina from 1911 to 1918. The images were drawn from her life experience and related either generally or specifically to places where she lived.īorn in 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe received art training at the Art Institute of Chicago school (1905), the Art Students League of New York (1907–8), the University of Virginia (1912), and Columbia University’s Teachers College, New York (1914–16).
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Her primary subjects were landscapes, flowers, and bones, explored in series over several years and even decades. With exceptionally keen powers of observation and great finesse with a paintbrush, she recorded subtle nuances of color, shape, and light that enlivened her paintings and attracted a wide audience. Remarkably, she remained independent from shifting art trends and stayed true to her own vision, which was based on finding the essential, abstract forms in nature. For seven decades, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a major figure in American art.
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