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...sort of media blitz--from Le Monde to the Frankfurter Allgemeine to Town & Country--that she experienced again and again in a career that was launched in scandal when she appeared as the tender (and fully exposed) model in the photographs of her lover and later husband Alfred Stieglitz. She advanced that early fame on the sheer power of her painting, her personality and, increasingly, her role as an icon of feminist strength. With the inauguration of the new building, O'Keeffe joins a small number of disparate American artists with memorial museums: Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Frederic Remington...
DIED. DOROTHY NORMAN, 92, Renaissance-woman photographer, writer and liberal activist who had a relationship with Alfred Stieglitz and was the subject of many of his photos; in East Hampton, New York. Among her many works: a Stieglitz biography and a book on India's Jawaharlal Nehru...
There wasn't much social criticism in New York Dada, though some of its members were clearly ticked off by the conservative character of the American art world. Picabia even satirized Alfred Stieglitz--whose 291 gallery was the main rallying point for modernist artists like Constantin Brancusi, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley--as an impotent figure, a camera with a collapsed bellows. Dove himself had a prod at the reviewing establishment in The Critic, 1925--a figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper...
...Stieglitz's other accomplishments in running a gallery and the like are not to be missed, and the museum kindly provides several of his own letters from the time. Selections from photographers whom he supported--Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, etc.--round off the museum's own portrait of Stieglitz and his time. Fans of O'Keeffe will also enjoy the half-dozen or so of her works added as a bonus, which contribute to the shades of avant-garde atmosphere ("Mommy, I've never seen a flower quite like that before...
Providing an always welcome glance at one of America's foremost photographers, the Stieglitz exhibit provides an enjoyable welcome to the fall season of exhibits...