Artistic Couples Stieglitz and O Keeffe ( ) Website: LindaLovelandReid.com

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1 1 Artistic Couples Stieglitz and O Keeffe LindaLReid100@gmail.com ( ) Website: LindaLovelandReid.com Born Jan 1, 1864 in Hoboken, New Jersey; died July 13, 1946 in New York grapher who turned discipline into art form George O Keeffe Born Nov 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; died 1986 in Santa Fe, NM Most famous American woman artist Stieglitz and O Keeffe meet in 1917; married December 1924 Artist Painting Comments ( ) ( ) Mother: Hedwig Stieglitz Stieglitz in 20s First camera $7.50 Stieglitz Heroic effort A Good Joke 1888 Harvesting, Black Forest, Germany First noted work Printed in industry magazine Paula, Sun Rays, Berlin Lives with prostitute 1889 Wife, Emmeline Obermeyer ( ) Marries 1893, age 29 Loveless relationship Daughter, Katherine (Kitty) Daughter Kitty born ( ) Terminal, 1893 Leads charge to modern photography Stieglitz with photographers 1902 Secession Camera Club Camera Work Quarterly graphic Quarterly Flatiron Building Dreaminess of Impressionism 1903 Steerage 1907 Most famous photo Turning point in career s Stieglitz at Little Gallery th Ave, NY 291 = Famous gallery in art history O Keeffe at approx. age 16 Oldest dtr; 2 nd of 7 siblings O Keeffe with Mother Ida Mother, Ida - Dutch Father, Francis - Irish Sister, Ida 3 sister, 4 brothers Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot Chicago Art Institute

2 1908 Wm Merritt Chase, instructor O Keeffe age 24 Measles, mother has TB No painting for 2 years Armory Show, 1913 John Sloan, Kandinsky, Robt Henri, Marcel Duchamp Art show that began dialog about modern art in America WWI 1914 Lusitania sunk Artists reaction Dada (1917 US joins war) Charcoal drawing Teaching Canyon, TX Falls in love Macmahon I made a crazy thing! Charcoal drawing Stieglitz and O Keeffe meet. Finally a woman on paper! Blue, 1916 Blue Line, 1916 Radical ideas fired! Starry Night, letters a day from Stieglitz Seated Nude, 1917 Last figure work. Living with Leah Harris O Keeffe Returns NY, June 1918 Lives with Stieglitz O Keeffe Erotic photos of O Keeffe 2 O Keeffe O Keeffe s hands Gallery Exhibit, nudes photos Stieglitz with Kitty daughter Music Pink and Blue 1918 Stieglitz Family Home Lake George, NY Stieglitz family photo O Keeffe plays violin Stieglitz loves Wagner Southeast base of Adirondack Mountains, northeastern NY O Keeffe at Lake George Builds O Keeffe shed to paint Lake George, 1922 Visits Lake George every summer to 1934 Blue Green Music, 1921 American Girl, 1919 Surreal Portrait Dorothy True s face on stocking leg Marcel Duchamp Fountain, 1917 Ready-mades Art for Art s Sake Kitty marries Milton Stearns 1922 of Kitty with brother Joseph Lake George Jan 23, 1923 Exhibit A star is born! Black Iris Sexual interpretations

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4 Jack-in-the-Pulpit IV Stieglitz and O Keeffe Stieglitz age 60; O Keeffe 37 Married Dec 1924 From Corn series 30 years It was the art that kept me with him. American Radiator Bldg New York Moon No one is normal. White Rose Nobody sees a flower, really Calla Lilies Flight from modernism? Arthur Dove ( ) Fog Horns 1929 O Keeffe inspired by Dove s work Dove and O Keeffe Arthur Dove, Sunrise 1924 Similar styles O Keeffe, Sunrise, 1919 Dove and O Keeffe Dove, Moon, 1935 Her boldness called purity O Keeffe, Jack-in-the-Pulpit Red Thing, 1924 Crash of 1929! Social Regionalism popular s Radio City Powder Room Commissions Elizabeth Arden Salon Dorothy Norman years difference Long term relationship Dorothy Norman Stieglitz awarded Society Prize Black Abstraction O Keeffe breakdown 1927 Letter from Frida Kahlo O Keeffe age 48 Is O Keeffe a feminist? Becky Strand and O Keeffe In New Mexico 1929 Mabel Dodge ( ) Tony Luhan O Keeffe affair with Dodge and Becky Strand, Taos, NM Mabel Dodge Luhan s home New Mexico O Keeffe Paints in Model A Ford Cow Scull, Red, White Blue Now famous! 1931 Black Mesa Landscape 1930 Stieglitz and O Keeffe Stieglitz insane without her 4 Manhattan, 1934 MET buys work

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6 6 Stieglitz Mentor to modern artists Edward Steichen Flatiron Bldg., 1904 ( ) Edward Steichen Greta Garbo ( ) Edward Steichen The Pond, Moonlight Topstone Park ( ) 1904 John Marin Brooklyn Bridge, 1912 Quickness of materials Watercolor Marsden Hartley German Soldier, 1914 Stieglitz s most troubled child ( ) Equivalents Mother dies ( ) 200 photos Ansel Adams Thunder Clouds ( ) s Stieglitz and O Keeffe Heart attacks Stieglitz dies July 1946, age 82 O Keeffe with Orville Cox 1946 first Retrospective NY MoMA The House I Live In Abiquiu, NM O Keeffe Museum s O Keeffe Juan Hamilton becomes into O Keeffe s life. Lawrence Tree Ponderosa pine grew on DH Lawrence s ranch in NM. Above the Clouds 1968, age 81 O Keeffe dies March 1986 Age 98 Legacy Legacy Stieglitz and O Keeffe