The New York gallery 291 gave Georgia O'Keeffe her first solo exhibition in 1917.
The gallery was founded and operated by Alfred Stieglitz at 291 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Its official name was the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, but it became widely known simply as 291. Stieglitz used the space to introduce American audiences to innovative photography and European modern art.
O'Keeffe’s 1917 exhibition presented drawings and watercolors made while she was teaching in Texas and South Carolina. Stieglitz had seen a group of her abstract charcoal drawings in 1916 and recognized their unusual force. The show helped bring her work into New York’s modernist network.
The gallery closed in 1917, the same year as O'Keeffe’s solo exhibition. Stieglitz later ran other galleries, including the Intimate Gallery and An American Place, but 291 remains the key site associated with her first solo presentation.