The New York gallery known as 291 exhibited Georgia O’Keeffe’s work in 1916.
The gallery was founded and operated by Alfred Stieglitz at 291 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its original name was the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, but it became widely known as 291 after its address. Stieglitz used the space to present photography alongside modern European and American art.
Anita Pollitzer showed O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawings to Stieglitz, who exhibited them at 291 without initially asking the artist’s permission. O’Keeffe’s first solo exhibition there followed in 1917. These presentations helped establish her reputation in New York and brought her work into Stieglitz’s influential artistic circle.
O’Keeffe later exhibited at two other Stieglitz galleries, the Intimate Gallery and An American Place. That is why those names can be confused with 291. The number itself refers to the Fifth Avenue address and became one of the best-known gallery names in early American modernism.