Which New York gallery did Alfred Stieglitz open in 1929 and name An American Place?

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Alfred Stieglitz opened the gallery An American Place in New York in 1929.

An American Place was the final gallery Stieglitz operated. It opened at 509 Madison Avenue and continued his effort to present American artists, photographers, and modernists outside the conventions of commercial gallery culture. Georgia O'Keeffe was closely associated with the gallery and exhibited there.

The name deliberately emphasized American art and artistic independence. Stieglitz had previously run the influential gallery 291, named for its address on Fifth Avenue, and later the Intimate Gallery. Those names are often mixed up because all three venues belonged to the same New York gallery history.

An American Place remained active until Stieglitz’s death in 1946. After his death, O'Keeffe became the executor of his estate and helped arrange the disposition of his photographs and papers. The gallery therefore connects O'Keeffe’s public career with Stieglitz’s wider role in shaping American modernism.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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