![]() ![]() ![]() It thus completes the series of heliogravures, published in the review Camera Work, that belongs to his pictorialist period. Alfred Stieglitz Papers (Series I-VII) The Alfred Stieglitz Papers (Boxes 1-176) have been organized into seven series: Series I. No one knows for certain why Georgia O’Keeffe donated a portion of her husband Alfred Stieglitz’ art collection to tiny Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Gelatin silver print 11.4 x 9.1 cm (image/paper/first mount) 31.8 x 25. The donation mainly highlights the "pure" photography of the modern period, the richest in Stieglitz's work and the least known in Europe. The Musée d'Orsay is the only European museum, with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, to have received a gift from the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. The Alfred Stieglitz collection, donated in 1949, effectively founded permanent holdings of photography at this museum. After the artist's death, his widow, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, was anxious to preserve and emphasise the prints by distributing them among the greatest American museums. Stieglitz's famous photographic cycle of O'Keeffe began in 1917 when she was thirty years old and he was fifty-three, and ended in 1937 when ill-health caused Stieglitz to put down his heavy camera. Stieglitz directed O’Keeffe to oversee bequests of his work to multiple museums, including the Art Institute, where she had studied in the 1910s. This exceptional gift will allow the art of this immense creator to be represented at last in French collections. In 2003, the Musée d'Orsay received twenty-two prints from the artist's fund as a gift from the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. Don de la Fondation Georgia O'Keeffe, 2003 ![]()
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