The New York gallery known as 291 exhibited Georgia O’Keeffe’s early work.
The gallery was founded by Alfred Stieglitz and was formally associated with 291 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. It began as the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession and became an important venue for photography and European and American modernism. Stieglitz used it to present artists who were not yet widely accepted in the United States.
O’Keeffe’s early abstract drawings were shown there after Anita Pollitzer brought them to Stieglitz’s attention. The gallery’s name came from its address, so 291 refers to a place rather than an art movement or a painting. Stieglitz later operated other galleries, including the Intimate Gallery and An American Place.