What was the name of the New York hotel where Georgia O'Keeffe lived with Alfred Stieglitz?

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Georgia O'Keeffe lived with Alfred Stieglitz at New York's Shelton Hotel.

In 1925, the couple moved into a high-floor apartment at the Shelton, a prominent skyscraper on Lexington Avenue. O'Keeffe's views from the building inspired paintings of Manhattan's vertical architecture, including skyscrapers, bridges, and city lights.

The Shelton was notable as one of New York's early luxury residential skyscrapers. Its height and large windows offered an unusual elevated perspective at a time when the modern city was becoming a major subject for American artists.

The hotel is sometimes confused with the Chelsea Hotel, another famous New York artists' residence. O'Keeffe and Stieglitz did not live at the Chelsea. Their Shelton apartment belonged to the period when O'Keeffe painted New York as a powerful, abstract arrangement of geometric forms.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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