Which artist founded the New York gallery 291 and promoted Georgia O'Keeffe?

Alfred Stieglitz founded the New York gallery 291 and promoted Georgia O'Keeffe.

Stieglitz was a major advocate for modern art in the United States. Through his gallery and publications, he introduced American audiences to experimental European art while supporting emerging American artists.

He first saw O'Keeffe's abstract drawings in 1916, after Anita Pollitzer brought them to him. Stieglitz was impressed enough to display them without initially having met O'Keeffe. Their correspondence and collaboration developed afterward, and he organized exhibitions that helped establish her reputation.

Stieglitz's support was important, but O'Keeffe's later success cannot be reduced to his influence. She developed a highly recognizable body of work across abstraction, flowers, cityscapes, bones, and landscapes. Their relationship combined marriage, artistic advocacy, and unavoidable tensions over public interpretation of her work.