Alfred Stieglitz died in 1946, after which Georgia O’Keeffe increasingly settled in New Mexico.
Stieglitz died on July 13, 1946, in New York City. He had been an important figure in O’Keeffe’s professional life, exhibiting her work, photographing her, and helping establish her reputation among American modernists. The couple had remained married, although their lives had become geographically and artistically more separate.
After his death, O’Keeffe spent more of her time in New Mexico, where she had already been painting since her first visit in 1929. She moved permanently to the state in 1949. The change did not mean she abandoned her earlier subjects, but it made the Southwest the dominant setting of her mature career.
This date is sometimes confused with 1924, the year O’Keeffe and Stieglitz married, or 1949, the year she moved permanently to New Mexico. Those dates mark different events in the couple’s shared biography.