Which New York gallery did Georgia O’Keeffe’s husband Alfred Stieglitz run as “291”?

The gallery later known as 291 began as the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession. Alfred Stieglitz ran it at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York, and the address eventually became the gallery’s familiar name.

Stieglitz initially created the space to promote photography as a serious art form. Its program expanded to include European avant-garde art and emerging American modernists. In 1916, the gallery presented Georgia O’Keeffe’s abstract drawings, giving her work important early exposure.

The gallery closed in 1917, but Stieglitz continued exhibiting O’Keeffe at later venues, including the Intimate Gallery and An American Place. These names are related but are not interchangeable: 291 refers specifically to the earlier Fifth Avenue gallery and its address.