What was Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman exhibition venue in 1917?

Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman exhibition was held at the 291 gallery in New York in 1917. Alfred Stieglitz organized the show after receiving photographs of her charcoal drawings from Anita Pollitzer.

The gallery, formally called Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession and later known simply as 291, was founded and directed by Stieglitz. It introduced American audiences to European modernism as well as innovative American artists and photographers.

O'Keeffe's 1917 exhibition was significant because it presented her as an original artist before she had developed the flower paintings that later became her best-known works. The show included drawings made while she was teaching in Texas and experimenting with abstraction.

This venue is sometimes confused with Stieglitz's later galleries, the Intimate Gallery and An American Place. Those spaces became important too, but the 1917 one-woman exhibition took place at 291, which had closed by 1917 after operating at its famous Fifth Avenue address.