Word: stieglitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cool, retiring Georgia O'Keeffe's shows are hung by her husband, Photographer-Art Dealer Alfred Stieglitz, in an ascetically bare 17th-floor office building suite. Dealer Stieglitz also handles all O'Keeffe sales; these are usually accompanied by a resounding clang of the cash register. O'Keeffe oils bring between $3-4,000. Record: $10,000, in 1937, for an untitled flower piece bought by Manhattan Beautician Elizabeth Arden...
...Chase School and National School of Design, contributed to Manhattan's historic 1913 Armory Show, where modern art first drew a big U.S. public, thanks to Marcel Duchamps' cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase. Hartley was also among the handful of modernists sponsored by famed Manhattan Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...
Measuring these skills has been largely the work of two scientists-Ophthalmologist Hedwig Stieglitz Kuhn* of Hammond, Ind., and Dr. Joseph Tiffin, Purdue psychologist. For 20 years Dr. Kuhn has studied all sorts of eyes used and misused in the vast Calumet industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...
...Daughter of the late great Chemist Julius O. Stieglitz, niece of famed Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...
...Keeffe decided she was "a very stupid fool" not to paint just as she wished, sent a roll of sketches to a friend in Manhattan on the "express condition that they were not to be shown to anyone." The friend promptly showed them to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz (TIME, Jan. 11). He gave an exhibition of O'Keeffe in his "291" gallery, persuaded her to devote all her time to painting, married her eight years later. Her first sale brought $400. In 1928 she got $25,000 for five paintings of lilies. She once sold a single picture...