Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1916 New York exhibition was held at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery, 291.
The gallery was named for its address at 291 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Stieglitz initially called it the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, then the Intimate Gallery, and later An American Place at different locations and periods. The name 291 became especially associated with the gallery’s pioneering modern-art program.
In 1916, photographer and gallery owner Anita Pollitzer showed Stieglitz some of O’Keeffe’s abstract charcoal drawings. Stieglitz exhibited them at 291, making O’Keeffe one of the first American artists he presented there. This introduction became a turning point in her professional career.
O’Keeffe did not personally organize that first exhibition. Stieglitz’s gallery was known for presenting European modernists as well as American artists, helping introduce avant-garde ideas to New York audiences. The venue closed in 1917, but its influence on American modernism remained substantial.