Georgia O'Keeffe – Hands
Photograph
Georgia O'Keeffe – Hands
[Georgia O'Keeffe (hands)]
1919
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24 × 17.9 cm)
Mount: 19 7/8 × 15 1/16 in. (50.5 × 38.3 cm)
Matted: 24 × 19 15/16 × 5/16 in. (61 × 50.7 × 0.8 cm)
Purchase and gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
1974.0052.0063
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on mount verso: OK 25-E / Alfred Stieglitz
TextPerhaps no one else in the first half of the twentieth century advocated for photography as an art form as persistently and convincingly as the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. At the time this photograph was made, Stieglitz’s artistic approach was in transition from the soft-focused, Pictorialist aesthetic of his early career—a move signaled by his closing Gallery 291 and ceasing publication of the lavish periodical Camera Work—towards a sharper, more precise modern aesthetic. A major factor influencing this seismic shift was Stieglitz’s budding friendship with the painter Georgia O’Keeffe, a relationship that would continue until Stieglitz’s death in 1946. This seminal portrait of O’Keeffe is one of hundreds Stieglitz made during the course of their life together, the cumulative effect of which he considered a “composite portrait” of the artist.
Lisa Hostetler, Ph.D.
Curator in Charge, Department of Photography
Label for A History of Photography [Rotation 1]
May 9–September 28, 2014
Lisa Hostetler, Ph.D.
Curator in Charge, Department of Photography
Label for A History of Photography [Rotation 1]
May 9–September 28, 2014
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