Which photographer and gallery owner exhibited Georgia O'Keeffe's drawings in New York in 1916?

Alfred Stieglitz exhibited Georgia O'Keeffe's drawings in New York in 1916.

O'Keeffe had made a group of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 while teaching in South Carolina. She sent some of them to her friend Anita Pollitzer, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz was an influential photographer, publisher, and gallery owner who recognized the originality of the drawings.

He displayed them at his gallery, 291, in New York in 1916. This was O'Keeffe's first solo exhibition, and it helped bring her work to the attention of the American modernist art world. Stieglitz also photographed O'Keeffe extensively, creating a large body of portraits over several decades.

The event is sometimes simplified as the moment Stieglitz “discovered” O'Keeffe, but she already had formal art training and teaching experience. His exhibition was crucial because it gave her experimental work an influential public platform.