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Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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role Artist Dealer/Gallery Collector
dates 1864-1946.
city New York City
stateNY
other citiesBerlin, 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.

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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.


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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Archives
Evan H. Turner Records, 1964-1978 see details...
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Archives
Dalton Dorr Records, 1876-1904
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see also:
"291" (Gallery)
Anderson Galleries, Inc
Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973
Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970