The gallery that exhibited Georgia O'Keeffe’s work after Alfred Stieglitz discovered her drawings was 291.
The gallery was founded and operated by Alfred Stieglitz in New York. Its formal name was the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, but it became widely known by its address at 291 Fifth Avenue.
Stieglitz showed O'Keeffe’s charcoal abstractions there in 1916. These works had been sent to him by Anita Pollitzer without O'Keeffe’s prior permission, an episode that began a long professional connection between the two artists.
291 was important beyond O'Keeffe’s career. It introduced American audiences to influential European modernists while also promoting experimental American artists and photographers. The gallery closed in 1917, after which Stieglitz continued presenting O'Keeffe’s work at other New York galleries.