Who was Georgia O'Keeffe's husband, the photographer and gallery director?

Georgia O'Keeffe's husband was photographer and gallery director Alfred Stieglitz.

Stieglitz first exhibited O'Keeffe's work in 1916 and became her dealer, mentor, and long-term correspondent. They married in 1924 and remained together until Stieglitz died in 1946. Their relationship connected O'Keeffe to major debates about photography, abstraction, and modern art.

Stieglitz photographed O'Keeffe extensively, producing hundreds of portraits over several decades. He also organized exhibitions of her paintings and drawings in New York. O'Keeffe, however, developed an independent artistic identity and later objected to interpretations that reduced her art to a reflection of their marriage.

Paul Strand and Edward Steichen were important photographers associated with American modernism, but neither was O'Keeffe's husband. Charles Demuth was a fellow modernist painter. Stieglitz's role was unusually broad because he was simultaneously her spouse, dealer, advocate, and a major figure in American photography.