Georgia O'Keeffe had her first solo exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery in 1917. The show took place at 291, Stieglitz's influential New York space for modern art and photography.
The exhibition followed Stieglitz's discovery of O'Keeffe's abstract charcoal drawings, which a friend had sent him without her prior permission. He was struck by their originality and began presenting her work to the public.
O'Keeffe was teaching in Texas when the exhibition opened, and her career developed rapidly afterward. The 1917 date is earlier than both her marriage to Stieglitz in 1924 and her first visits to New Mexico in 1929, two later milestones often associated with her biography.