Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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role

Artist Dealer/Gallery Collector

dates

1864-1946.

city

New York City

state

NY

other cities

Berlin, Germany; Hoboken, NJ;

sex

M

historical notes

Stieglitz introduced modern European art to America by organizing the first exhibitions in the US of work by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, and Paul Cézanne, among others.

Stieglitz was the editor for both periodicals Camera Notes (1897-1902) and Camera Work (1903-1917).

Additionally, he supported American modernist artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Demuth.

In 1905 he opened 291 Gallery at 291 5th Ave, which closed in 1917.

In 1921, 1923, and 1924 Stieglitz held monographic exhibitions of his photographs at the Anderson Galleries in a rented space he coined Intimate Gallery.

In the fall of 1929 Stieglitz opened An American Place on the seventeenth floor of a building at 509 Madison Avenue in New York.

As executor of Stieglitz's Estate, Georgia O'Keeffe divided his art collection (approximately 1000 works of art) and donated the majority of it to six institutions: Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (O’Keeffe’s alma mater); National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

decades
of activity

1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930
1930-1940

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives	Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O'Keeffe Archive	see details...
Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives	Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O'Keeffe collection, ca. 1893-[ongoing]	see details...
Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives	Flora Stieglitz Straus collection of Stieglitz family papers, 1860-1999	see details...
New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328	Mitchell Kennerley papers, 1917-1940 (MssCol 1634)	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Marius de Zayas letters sent to Paul B. Haviland, 1915-1918.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Alfred Stieglitz notes, 1915 Nov. 15.	see details...
National Gallery of Art, Library 2000B South Club Drive	Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O’Keeffe archive, 1728-1986.	see details...
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	Keith Warner papers, 1935-1975.	see details...
New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archives Division Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rm 328	Carl Van Vechten papers, 1833-1965, bulk (1920-1940) (MssCol 3142)	see details...
The Museum of Modern Art Library and Archives	Edward Steichen Archive, [ca. 1900]-1986, [ca. 1900]-1960 (bulk)	see details...
National Portrait Gallery Library Smithsonian American Art Museum	Artist file: Stieglitz, Alfred , 1864-1946	see details...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library Smithsonian Institution	Artist file: Stieglitz, Alfred , 1864-1946	see details...
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Freer\|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution	Artist file: Stieglitz, Alfred , 1864-1946	see details...
Whitney Museum of American Art The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Archives	How, When and Why Modern Art Came to New York, 1996	see details...
Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives	Dorothy Norman Research Collection, 1897-1992, n.d.	see details...
Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives	Evan H. Turner Records, 1964-1978	see details...
Philadelphia Museum of Art Archives	Dalton Dorr Records, 1876-1904	see details...