What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman exhibition at a New York gallery?

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Georgia O'Keeffe was the title of her first one-woman exhibition at a New York gallery.

The exhibition opened at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery 291 in April 1917. It presented O'Keeffe's drawings and watercolors and established her as a significant new voice in American modernism. The title was simply her name rather than a descriptive theme.

The show was especially important because it brought her work into the New York art world before she moved there permanently. Stieglitz had first exhibited several of her charcoal abstractions at 291 in 1916, but the 1917 presentation was her first solo exhibition at the gallery.

O'Keeffe later became associated with other Stieglitz galleries, including The Intimate Gallery and An American Place. Those later venues should not be confused with 291, the site of her first one-woman show.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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