Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait
Artist
Alfred Stieglitz
(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)
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.eMuseum Notes
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.
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Terms
- portraits
- artists
- women
- lovers
- pose
- hats
Ansel Adams
1937 (printed 1981)
