Georgia O’Keeffe was an up-and-coming artist in 1917 when she was discovered by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz had taken many photos of her and published these photos in different exhibits. He would also help get her art published into exhibits, including his old gallery called 291. Her first solo exhibition was in 1923 in New York and featured different paintings she had created. Alfred Stieglitz had called this exhibition Alfred Stieglitz Presents One Hundred Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings, by Georgia O’Keeffe. This exhibition was published at the Anderson Galleries Alfred Stieglitz had called Georgia O’Keeffe the first modernist. “However, he equated the creative process with sexual energies, and from the beginning he defined O’Keeffe’s work primarily in terms of gender, declaring her imagery the visual manifestation of a sexually liberated woman.” (Britannica) By the late 1920s, O’Keeffe had become one of the most celebrated modernist artists. When she was publishing these works, she was strongly opposing the gendered interpretations of her works and the sexualized public image that Alfred Stieglitz had created of her. She promoted herself as a hard-working professional after 1923. She shifted her art style from being more modernist abstract to more recognizable art forms for which she is more recognized today.
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