Georgia O'Keeffe’s drawings were shown in 1916 at Alfred Stieglitz’s New York gallery, known as 291.
The gallery took its name from its address at 291 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Stieglitz founded it in 1905 as the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession and later shortened its public name to 291. It became an important venue for modern European and American art, photography, and experimental work.
In 1916, photographer and art promoter Anita Pollitzer showed Stieglitz some of O'Keeffe’s abstract charcoal drawings. He exhibited them at 291, bringing her work into the New York art world. This exhibition helped begin the professional relationship that eventually led to their marriage.
291 closed in 1917, but its influence continued through Stieglitz’s later galleries. It is distinct from An American Place, the gallery he opened in 1929, where O'Keeffe was also represented.