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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918, platinum photograph, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Co…
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918, platinum photograph, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Co…
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918, platinum photograph, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Estate, 1993 (1993.51.4) Photo by Blair Clark

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait

Artist (American, 1864 - 1946)
Date1918
Mediumplatinum print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 × 7 in. (24.8 × 17.8 cm)
Support: 10 1/2 × 8 1/8 in. (26.7 × 20.6 cm)
Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Georgia O'Keeffe Estate, 1993
Object number1993.51.4
DescriptionA quarter-length portrait of a young woman (O'Keeffe) wearing a black hat and black coat. She plays with one of her coat buttons, holding it between her fingers of both hands. She is featured in three-quarter profile and stares off to the right with a solemn expression.
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The photograph was made in New York City at Stieglitz’s gallery 291. The drawing that appears behind O’Keeffe is her 1916-17 charcoal piece No. 15 Special, now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

A memorandum dated March 7, 1994 (see object file) from museum director David Turner to curator Steve Yates refers to a conversation Turner had with Sarah Greenough about whether or not to treat a “dust spot” on the print. Because the print was unmounted and thus had not reached the final presentation stage, Greenough believed that Stieglitz simply had not yet done the spotting that would finish the piece and render it ready for exhibition. She recommended that the museum do a written and photo documentation of the state in which the print was received and then have a professional do the small cosmetic alteration on the print with non-permanent materials. No further information or documentation has been found regarding this matter.

 

See Greenough, “Alfred Steiglitz: The Key Set,” Vol. 2, 2002, p. 291, #474.

 

 

Other known prints of this image are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum; and private collections.

 

 

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