What was the title of Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman exhibition, held in 1917?

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Georgia O'Keeffe was the title of her first one-woman exhibition, held in 1917.

The exhibition took place at 291, Alfred Stieglitz's New York gallery, after photographer and art dealer Anita Pollitzer showed Stieglitz O'Keeffe's charcoal drawings. Stieglitz was impressed and displayed the works in April 1917. The exhibition introduced O'Keeffe to New York's modern-art audience while she was still relatively unknown.

The show was important because the drawings did not follow the conservative academic style expected of many American artists. They used simplified forms and expressive lines, pointing toward abstraction. Stieglitz's gallery had already become a leading venue for modern European and American art.

The exhibition title was simply Georgia O'Keeffe, rather than a descriptive phrase. Later accounts sometimes focus on O'Keeffe's flowers and New Mexico paintings, but her first public breakthrough came through nonrepresentational charcoal works. Her artistic partnership with Stieglitz grew from this professional connection and later became personal.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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