Who organized Georgia O'Keeffe's 1916 exhibition at New York's 291 gallery?

Alfred Stieglitz organized Georgia O'Keeffe's 1916 exhibition at New York's 291 gallery.

Stieglitz was a photographer, gallery owner, and influential promoter of modern art. Without O'Keeffe's prior permission, his gallery displayed some of her abstract charcoal drawings in 1916. The presentation introduced her work to an important New York art audience.

The gallery was commonly known as 291, after its address at 291 Fifth Avenue. Stieglitz had used it to show modern European and American artists, and he became one of O'Keeffe's most important professional supporters.

Their artistic and personal relationship developed after the exhibition. Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe extensively, and the two married in 1924. The 1916 show is often treated as a turning point in her public career, not as her first contact with art institutions.