Who was Georgia O'Keeffe's husband, the photographer who ran gallery 291?

Georgia O'Keeffe’s husband was Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer who ran gallery 291.

Stieglitz first encountered O'Keeffe’s work through photographs of her abstract drawings and organized exhibitions of her art in New York. Their relationship became both personal and professionally important within the American art world.

They married in 1924 and remained together until Stieglitz’s death in 1946. Stieglitz also photographed O'Keeffe extensively, producing hundreds of portraits and figure studies over the course of their relationship.

Stieglitz is sometimes remembered only as O'Keeffe’s husband, but he was an influential photographer, publisher, and promoter of modern art. He operated 291 and later directed the Intimate Gallery and An American Place. Those galleries introduced American audiences to European modernists as well as American artists.