#STIEGLITZ O KEEFFE PHOTOS PROFESSIONAL#

From the beginning, O'Keeffe's professional and personal life were inexorably entwined with the needs and desires of Stieglitz who, over the course of almost thirty years, was her artistic mentor, commercial dealer, portraitist, lover, and, later, husband. By the time of her death, some seventy years later, she was among the most famous people in America. When Georgia O'Keeffe first showed her work in New York in 1916 at Alfred Stieglitz's avant-garde 291 gallery, she was virtually unknown as an artist. Courtesy of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. A selection of photographs and paintings appearing in the show are presented here.Īlfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Georgia O'Keeffe in Chemise, 1918. This is the first exhibition in which paintings and photographs have been paired to establish two opposing public images of the artist. This summer the Portland Museum of Art in Maine presents Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity, an exhibition that includes eighteen of O'Keeffe's key works alongside some sixty photographs that highlight her personal and professional relationships with the leading photographers of her day. Photographs made by her art dealer-husband, her friends, celebrity portraitists, and photojournalists all serve to tell various versions of that tale. O'Keeffe's lasting fame rests on the strength of her work and the romantic story of her life. Photography played an essential role in establishing her reputation, promoting her career, and creating her public persona. Her extraordinary career focused first on a highly innovative exploration of abstraction and shifted towards powerful representation and heightened realism after the mid-1920s.

Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her paintings of large-scale flowers, New York cityscapes, animal bones, and the landscape of New Mexico. After Stieglitz's death in 1946, O'Keeffe moved there permanently. Later, through her affiliations with photographers such as Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Todd Webb, she redefined herself as a rugged individualist whose identity was linked with the animal bones and barren hills of the Southwest that became her home and a source of her art. As the protege of Stieglitz, one of the early proponents of modern art in New York (and later his wife), O'Keeffe posed in front of her abstract artwork as a manifestation of the sexually liberated woman. From her debut as a provocative young artist in Alfred Stieglitz's photographs to depictions of her as a grande dame of the art world in prints by Andy Warhol, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) captivated the media with a persona as bold as her art.

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