Alfred Stieglitz first exhibited Georgia O’Keeffe’s drawings in 1916 at his New York gallery, known simply as 291. The gallery took its name from its address at 291 Fifth Avenue.
Originally called the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, the space became an important venue for European avant-garde art and emerging American modernism. Stieglitz showed photography alongside painting, sculpture, and other experimental work, helping audiences encounter artists who were not yet widely accepted.
O’Keeffe was not present when Stieglitz initially saw the drawings, and she had not authorized him to exhibit them. Their display nevertheless brought her work to influential New York viewers. Stieglitz later showed O’Keeffe repeatedly and became one of the central figures in shaping her early public reputation.