The New York gallery known as 291 hosted Georgia O'Keeffe's first solo show.
The gallery was founded and operated by Alfred Stieglitz at 291 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, which gave the space its short name. It became an important venue for introducing American audiences to European modern art and experimental American artists.
O'Keeffe's first solo exhibition there took place in 1917. Stieglitz presented her abstract drawings and watercolors, helping establish her professional visibility in New York before she became especially associated with flowers and Southwestern imagery.
The gallery was not simply a commercial showroom. Through exhibitions of photography, painting, sculpture, and other modernist work, 291 helped shape the cultural network surrounding Stieglitz. It closed in 1917, the same year as O'Keeffe's first solo exhibition there.