Shared Photography as another entry point? #6
Description
Several of Stieglitz's photos are common to several organizations, as a way to connect across them. For example:
- http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O84937/georgia-okeeffe-photograph-stieglitz-alfred/
- http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/80003/alfred-stieglitz-georgia-o'keeffe-a-portrait-american-1918/
- https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.59981.html
- https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.59982.html
The NGA notes:
O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawing No. 15 Special, 1916/1917 (Lynes 154), is in the background of this photograph
Which is:
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/91566.html
As is noted in the PMA description:
In 1917 the photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who later became O’Keeffe’s husband, included Special No. 15 in the first exhibition of O’Keeffe’s work at his New York Gallery “291.” The following year, he placed the drawing in the background of photographic portraits of her.
This is better than some of the other ones where she is depicted in front of her art where the object is in private hands (Blue I, After a Walk Back of Mabel's), as here we have a much better story of open-ness.