Which photographer and gallerist became Georgia O'Keeffe's husband?

Alfred Stieglitz became Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. Stieglitz was a pioneering American photographer, publisher, and gallery director who helped introduce European modern art to the United States. He first encountered O'Keeffe's abstract charcoal drawings in 1916 and exhibited them without her initial permission.

Their relationship developed through letters and visits. Stieglitz began photographing O'Keeffe in 1917, creating hundreds of portraits over the following years. Their personal and professional partnership connected her to the influential New York art world while also making her image unusually prominent in the history of American modernism.

They married in 1924. Stieglitz continued operating galleries, including An American Place, where O'Keeffe showed work. He died in 1946, four decades before O'Keeffe. Stieglitz's role is sometimes reduced to that of a husband, but he was also a major advocate for photography as a fine art and an important promoter of modernist artists.