Georgia O'Keeffe's husband was Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer who exhibited her work at his influential New York gallery, 291. Stieglitz first showed her drawings in 1916, before they married in 1924.
Stieglitz played a central role in introducing European modernism and innovative American art to the United States. His gallery displayed photography alongside paintings and sculpture, helping challenge older boundaries between fine-art media.
The relationship between O'Keeffe and Stieglitz is often discussed because his photographs of her and his promotion of her work shaped early publicity. O'Keeffe, however, developed a major career in her own right, especially through her flower paintings and New Mexico landscapes.