Which photographer began exhibiting Georgia O'Keeffe's drawings in 1916?

Alfred Stieglitz began exhibiting Georgia O'Keeffe's drawings in 1916.

Stieglitz, a pioneering photographer and influential New York gallery owner, first encountered O'Keeffe's charcoal abstractions through photographer and educator Anita Pollitzer. He exhibited the drawings at his gallery, 291, in 1916. This was a significant public introduction for O'Keeffe, whose works had been made privately while she taught art in Texas and Virginia.

Stieglitz was already a central figure in American modernism. His gallery presented European avant-garde artists alongside American artists and photographers, helping broaden the audience for experimental art in the United States. O'Keeffe's drawings attracted his attention because of their unusual abstraction and emotional intensity.

Their professional relationship became personal, and Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe extensively. He organized her first solo exhibition in 1917 and became her husband in 1924. Stieglitz is sometimes remembered primarily as a photographer, but his gallery work was equally important to O'Keeffe's early career.