Oral arguments set for Fisk appeal of art ruling Jan 7, 2009
The artworks were part of a collection that belonged to O'Keeffe's late husband, photographer and art promoter Alfred Stieglitz. Art historians say the collection has an appealing unity because many of the American artists were part of O'Keeffe and Stieglitz's circle of friends. (WREG.com, TN)
Weston Naef to Retire from J. Paul ... Dec 9, 2008
William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, , , Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Andr; Kert;sz, August Sander, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Frederick Sommer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Irving Penn became well-represented in the institution's world-class collection ... The prolific Mr. Naef wrote The Collection of Alfred Steiglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography (1978) and Georgia O Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz (1978), documenting a 1992 Getty exhibition. (Suite101.com)
'Democratic Camera' provides a retrospective of Eggleston's work Nov 30, 2008
Alfred Stieglitz called his cloud pictures "Equivalents." Minor White could have used that title for pretty much every picture he took. There is nothing equivalent for Eggleston. (Boston Globe)
Peter D. Barberie New Photographs C... Sep 23, 2008
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced on September 18, 2008 the appointment of Peter D. Barberie to the position of Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center. Upon assuming his new role in the Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs on October 1, 2008, will succeed Katherine C. Ware, recently named Curator of Photographs at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. (Suite101.com)
Photography exhibits run concurrently at Frist Center Sep 19, 2008
This exhibition features both types of approaches as exemplified by such artists as Mathew Brady, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston and Nan Goldin. A selection of early motion pictures demonstrates the achievements of a medium that developed directly out of photography and has become one of the most popular art forms of our times. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
LACMA Acquires Vernon Collection of... Aug 14, 2008
LACMA's world-renowned collection of photography includes important works by Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Andr; Kert;sz, L;szl; Moholy-Nagy, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, Sebasti;o Salgado, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Carrie Mae Weems. The Vernon Collection. (Suite101.com)
At Yale gallery, aspiring curators demonstrate a collector's eye Aug 10, 2008
She met O'Keeffe soon after the death of the painter's husband, Alfred Stieglitz, and assisted her in putting together donations of his work to various institutions. Among them was the Museum of Fine Arts, which eventually led to Bry's 1965 book, "Alfred Stieglitz, Photographer.". (Boston Globe)
American Artist Marsden Hartley Jul 7, 2008
The paintings intrigued photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who ran an influential Manhattan art gallery known as 291. 291 hosted Hartley s solo exhibit in 1909, and through interacting with Stieglitz and his circle of artists and friends -- which included Stieglitz s soon-to-be wife and painter Georgia O Keeffe, as well as early abstract painter and photographer Paul Strand -- Hartley s artistic perspectives began to broaden. (Suite101.com)
Women In Art Jul 6, 2008
But somehow an air of burly self-sufficiency, a mysterious essence of unexplained, irreducible genius hovers over male artists in a way that isn't fully allotted to O'Keeffe (forever fused to Alfred Stieglitz), Louise Nevelson (a neglectful mother concealed behind those dark eyelash shutters) or the suffering Kahlo. Viewers may experience what they see and feel in Kahlo's art as a deep empathic connection with her. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A Severini climbs to £15.04 million in a dazzling Impressionist and Modern sale Jun 26, 2008
The famed New York dealer Alfred Stieglitz received it on consignment from the Italian artist for his 1917 one-man show. Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Portraits of the artist as icon Jun 22, 2008
Supremely, there was Alfred Stieglitz, American photography's patriarch and chief impresario. He was also O'Keeffe's husband and took more than 350 photographs of her between 1917 and 1937, a unique rendering over time of one major artist by another. (Boston Globe)
'Framing a Century': Photography from 1840-1940 Jun 10, 2008
Where are Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and August Sander, for example. But this show has a second mission, which is to celebrate the 2005 acquisition of the glorious Gilman Collection of 8,500 photographs. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Three Biographies of Women Artists Jun 6, 2008
Beginning with her youth on a farm, the bio elaborates on her decision to attend the Art Institute of Chicago at 17, a daring move in those sexist years, and her alliance with the much-older photographer Alfred Stieglitz through the 291 Gallery. Like Arbus and Kahlo, O'Keefe had physical impediments to her art to conquer. (Suite101.com)
The lure of the street May 31, 2008
Few embraced this cause more enthusiastically than the young Alfred Stieglitz - and none was more active in its subsequent repudiation. Not just in his own work as a photographer, but as proselytiser, editor and gallerist, Stieglitz - together with his ally, the painter-photographer Edward Steichen - laboured to establish pictorialism as the dominant form of photographic art in America. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A Searing Image May 30, 2008
The most interesting example is a picture by Alfred Stieglitz that has been viewed as an exemplar of the teeming masses entering America in the early part of the 20th century. But in fact, the picture is of a ship taking those migrants back to Europe. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
O'Keeffe legacy forever intertwined with Stieglitz May 27, 2008
Alfred Stieglitz, pioneering photographer, groundbreaking art dealer and O'Keeffe's spouse, had a lot to do with her early fame. He tirelessly promoted and exhibited her art. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
CA Museum Exhibits: Summer 2008 May 26, 2008
All were sponsored by O'Keefe's husband, noted photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Suite101.com)
All human life May 21, 2008
You can hear it above the silence of the images themselves - in the clatter of a Paris street in the rain by Alfred Stieglitz, in the footsteps of commuters heading for work in Paul Strand's 1915 Wall Street, in the drunken shouts and murmurs of Boris Mikhailov's alcoholics. The exhibition calls itself an urban history of photography, and it takes us from mid-19th century Paris and London to present-day Shanghai and Mexico City. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Georgia on their minds May 18, 2008
She had been married to one of the great figures in the history of photography, Alfred Stieglitz, who photographed her many times. Danly really knew she was onto something when she got hungry at the San Francisco airport a year or two ago. (Boston Globe)
Portland museum appeals to all ages Apr 6, 2008
Twelve paintings by O'Keeffe, among the 20th century's most widely recognized artists, will be paired with 60 portraits of her by such celebrated photographers as Ansel Adams, Yousef Karsh, Irving Penn, and Alfred Stieglitz. While the museum offers much for adults, it tries hard to offer something for art lovers of all ages. (Boston Globe)
Travel briefs Apr 6, 2008
Through June 8, the museum is hosting a show called "Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," featuring prints by Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston. For more information, visit. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
American Artist Charles Demuth Apr 1, 2008
Through his friend Marsden Hartley, Demuth met photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz, who included Demuth in an artistic group known as The Seven. Besides Demuth and Hartley, The Seven's members were painters Arthur Dove, John Marin, Stieglitz s soon-to-be wife , photographer Paul Strand as well as Stieglitz himself. (Suite101.com)
The artist paints, sculpts, is exposed Mar 23, 2008
This exhibition includes more than 150 examples of Pictorialism and its predecessors by such artists as Julia Margaret Cameron, Baron Adolph de Meyer, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Josef Sudek. 750 Hornby St., 604-662-4719, vanart. (Boston Globe)
Judge: Fisk U. To Keep O'Keeffe Donation Mar 7, 2008
The collection of art belonged to O'Keeffe's husband, the photographer and art promoter Alfred Stieglitz. It includes pieces by O'Keeffe, Picasso, Renoir, Cezanne, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer and Charles Demuth. (CBS News -- US)
O'Keeffe Museum argues Fisk should forfeit prized art collection Feb 20, 2008
In the opening day of the trial over the 101-piece Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art, lawyers for the museum set out to show that Fisk repeatedly violated the conditions of the gift O'Keeffe gave to the school in 1949. And they said the school even admits to some of it. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Museum highlights O'Keeffe, peers Feb 19, 2008
O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is also known for her creative partnership with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who is credited with successfully steering her career for three decades. But in the first quarter of the 20th century, promoting the work of female artists was a radical undertaking. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Eric Estorick: The making of an art collector Feb 16, 2008
Young Estorick's encounter with the American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who had opened the 291 Gallery on Fifth Avenue, was the prelude to Stage Two in the family's American dream. Stieglitz displayed the art of European avant-garde painters among whom the Italian Futurist Gino Severini left an indelible impression on the student. (International Herald Tribune)
Bush terrors rise from the darkness Feb 14, 2008
"It reminded me of Taos, New Mexico, where painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz once lived and worked it's about the same altitude. And the light was amazing. "And Sydney's not what it was. There are so many changes photography has a kind of bland internationalism. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Charles Sheeler Feb 11, 2008
Sheeler was married twice and was also part of the innovative circle of artists surrounding photographer Alfred Stieglitz, including Sheeler s Manhatta collaborator Paul Strand and Stieglitz s second wife, painter Georgia O Keeffe. Additionally, he loved certain houses with a passion, as if they had souls which of course to Sheeler, they truly did. (Suite101.com)
Shooting stars and beyond Feb 11, 2008
1902: He joins the Photo-Secession movement, a group of photographers led by Alfred Stieglitz in the early 1900s that helped to raise standards and awareness of art photography. Stieglitz's journal Camera Work is launched. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Coloring Paris: A photographic homage to the city Jan 15, 2008
Alfred Stieglitz, the American photographer who happened to be in Paris for the unveiling, told the magazine Photography that the new process seemed to have unlimited possibilities: "Enthusiasm, delighted, unbounded, breaks loose," he wrote. Edward Steichen, who was also in Paris at the time, immediately ordered color plates. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
New SAMA director looking towards the future Jan 14, 2008
It s a very fine collection of American Art, with works by Mary Cassatt, Helen Frankenthaler, Andy Warhol, Alfred Stieglitz, Margaret Bourke-White and John Sloan. What makes owners and artists contribute their work to SAMA. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
* Looters or saviors? Jan 3, 2008
" At issue is a collection of art that belonged to O'Keeffe's husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. It includes what is considered one of O'Keeffe's masterpieces, the 1927 oil painting Radiator Building - Night, New York, as well as works by Picasso, Renoir, Cezanne, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer and Charles Demuth. O'Keeffe donated the art in 1949, choosing Fisk because the school, founded in 1866, educated blacks at a time when the South was segregated. She died in 1986. To art... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Financially ailing Fisk University struggles to turn some of its art collection into cash Dec 29, 2007
At issue is a collection of art that belonged to O'Keeffe's husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. It includes what is considered one of O'Keeffe's masterpieces, the 1927 oil painting "Radiator Building Night, New York," as well as works by Picasso, Renoir, Cezanne, Marsden Hartley, Alfred Maurer and Charles Demuth. (Erie Times-News, PA)
History of Photography Exhibitions Nov 28, 2007
Twenty-nine photographers are represented in this presentation, including Jean-Louis-Marie-Eugne Durieu (1800-1874), Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Man Ray (1890-1976), Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976), Diane Arbus (1923-1971) and Chuck Close (b. 1940). (Suite101.com)
Photo exhibit paints portrait of family life Nov 20, 2007
Their work and the show, which also includes images from professionals who were led by Alfred Stieglitz, illustrate an era when some of the world's best photographers promoted their work as an art form comparable to painting. From 1885 through 1914, devotees of pictorialism experimented with soft focus, dramatic lighting and exotic printing process and spent innumerable hours in the dark room manipulating their negatives and prints to achieve personal artistic expression. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Also at the VAG Oct 27, 2007
Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction Nature and Abstraction, organized jointly by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the VAG, offers a fairly comprehensive introduction to this legendary American artist, but it leans a little bit too heavily on the legend part, including numerous photographs taken of the artist by her paramour, Alfred Stieglitz, as well as some by contemporary photographer Todd Eberle. There are, however, not as many paintings as one might like. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Measuring Edward Steichen's multiple legacies Oct 20, 2007
Back in New York, Steichen founded the Photo-Secession group with Alfred Stieglitz, 15 years his senior, and contributed to a quarterly called Camera Work. And it was thanks to Steichen's Paris connections that Matisse, Rodin, C. (International Herald Tribune)
Georgia O'Keeffe Oct 17, 2007
Alfred Stieglitz and New York. O Keeffe s Texas letters to her friend Anita Pollitzer prompted Pollitzer to bring some of O Keeffe s drawings to Alfred Stieglitz. (Suite101.com)
Georgia OKeeffe: Nature and Abstraction Oct 11, 2007
Comprising a stunning collection of 28 canvases spanning the artists entire career, the exhibition is punctuated by an important selection of photographs of OKeeffe as a young woman taken by husband and fellow artist, Alfred Stieglitz, and of the artist later in life captured by renowned American photographer Todd Webb ... Owned by her future husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the gallery gave OKeeffe her first experiences with such European avant-garde painters as Paul Cezanne, George Braque and... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Petunias, cabbages - and O'Keeffe herself Oct 7, 2007
In 1916, Alfred Stieglitz, who owned the avant-garde New York gallery 291, took an interest in O'Keeffe's work and began showing it. He also took an interest in O'Keeffe herself. (Globe and Mail)
Georgia OKeeffe and Andy Warhol Oct 4, 2007
OKeeffes career was launched in 1916 when Alfred Stieglitz, an internationally known photographer and art impresario, exhibited her work at his famous avant-garde gallery, 291. Stieglitz and OKeeffe eventually fell in love and married in 1924. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Spotlight on... Emily Mitchell Sep 26, 2007
Also, because of his association and close friendship with Alfred Stieglitz, he was responsible for bringing a lot of French modern art to the United States for the very first time. Steichen was really someone who was involved in lots of different branches and artistic endeavors. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Zane's World: Fisky Business Sep 13, 2007
Ostensibly, at issue is whether or not Fisk University, suffering a financial crisis in its coffers and a maintenance crisis on its grounds, can sell any of the 97 works from the collection of OKeeffes husband, Alfred Stieglitz, or four additional paintings OKeeffe eventually gifted to the university. But the heart of the matter comes down to the trickier business of determining OKeeffes intentions and what it means, truly, to honor the artists legacy. (Santa Fe Reporter)
Luxembourg Photo Exhibit Jul 25, 2007
Along with Alfred Stieglitz, Steichen aided in the creation of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in 1905. During World War I, he headed up the photographic unit of the American Expeditionary Forces. (Suite101.com)
Photography collection upholds its image Jul 25, 2007
Many of those monuments are in evidence in this exhibit, including Medallion Portrait of a Woman (circa 1850) by Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901) and Albert Sands Southworth (1811-1894); Paul Robeson as ``The Emperor Jones''(1933) by Edward Steichen (1879-1973); Georgia O'Keeffe's Hand and Wheel (1933) by Alfred Stieglitz; Valley of the Yosemite, From Rocky Ford (1872) by Eadweard J. Muybridge; and Terminal Tower (1928) by Margaret Bourke-White. The collection of those monuments began... (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
School can't sell art donated by O'Keeffe Jun 15, 2007
Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ordered the historically black Nashville university not to sell any of the works in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, noting they were donated for art education. (AP). (Boston Globe)
Judge blocks U.S. university from selling works donated by Georgia O'Keeffe Jun 15, 2007
Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ordered the historically black Nashville university not to sell any of the works in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, noting they were donated to be used for art education. The collection, compiled by O'Keeffe's photographer husband, Alfred Stieglitz, includes works by Picasso, Cezanne, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as two O'Keeffes. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Sneak Peek At Walker's Pablo Picasso Exhibit Jun 14, 2007
"He brought this painting back in his suitcase and was the first one to convince the dealer Alfred Stieglitz that a show should happen.". As we walked into a gallery, Engeberg pointed out a huge painting on the wall. (WCCO.com, MN)
Rare Steichen portraits fortuitously discovered May 26, 2007
Spaulding had a brief career as a photographer and member of the influential scene known as the Photo Secession, led by Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. Then she put down her camera for good in 1910 after marrying Langdon Albright, the son of a prominent Buffalo industrialist, John J. Albright, an early benefactor of what is now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, in Buffalo. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Rare gift, young ageTeenage painter is already selling out her first show, and she doesn't use tube mixes May 13, 2007
But for her portrait of famed American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whose marriage to artist Georgia O'Keeffe produced some of his most famous pictures, Brown went with he Photographer. Her first still life is a two-picture set of the same subjects, a vase, tray and white rose she simply called till Life 1 Left and till Life 1 Right. (Missoulian, MT)
Photo Art 101 May 6, 2007
When photographer Alfred Stieglitz tried to interest the nation's museums in photography in the early years of the past century, he initially got no takers. "Photography can't be an art," he was told over and over, "because it's made by a machine.". (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
The Impermanent Collection Apr 13, 2007
When he died in 1946, Alfred Stieglitz, the great photographer and tireless promoter of modern art, left his estate to his wife, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe. His work as a photographer she shrewdly distributed to the large American museums that could be counted on to secure his reputation. (Time.com)
Ritts Foundation to give MFA $2.5m, trove of photographs Apr 7, 2007
The MFA has about 5,000 works in its photography collection, which was started in 1924 with a gift of 27 photographs from Alfred Stieglitz. The photos donated by the Ritts Foundation were all featured in the MFA show. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Bread or Roses? Mar 21, 2007
Its outlines are familiar from Alfred Stieglitz s famous 1917 photograph of the artist, in which she stands in front of the painting. Ann Tobin loves to tell this story: Much later in her career, O Keeffe wanted to buy Blue I from Robert. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Art Gallery to Get Jasper Johns Prints Mar 6, 2007
Besides Johns, the gallery has acquired the most extensive institutional holdings of works by several other 20th-century artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Frank, John Marin, Mark Rothko and Alfred Stieglitz. . (Shoals TimesDaily)
American reflections Mar 2, 2007
It offers an eclectic range of famous faces, iconic images and portraits of average Americans by noted photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange and Richard Avedon. "The traveling exhibit represents the beginning of photography to contemporary times," said Jeanne Verhulst, associate curator of exhibitions at George Eastman House. (Pensacola News Journal)
Settlement Would Allow Fisk University to Sell 2 Paintings From Its Stieglitz Collection Feb 17, 2007
The agreement, which Fisk and the Tennessee attorney general made public Thursday, will most likely end litigation over selling the paintings, which were among 101 works from the personal collection of the famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz that Mr. Stieglitz;s widow, Ms. O;Keeffe, gave Fisk in 1949. The settlement requires Fisk to seek donations that would allow it to keep one or both paintings, each of which has been appraised at $8. (Foster's Daily Democrat)
O'Keeffe painting involved in modern fight Feb 16, 2007
But it was virtually unknown to most whites when Ms. O'Keeffe's husband, famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz, died in 1946. Ms. O'Keeffe donated the bulk of his valuable collection of photographs and art to well-known institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. (AZCentral -- Business)
Picasso's Influence On American Artists Jan 22, 2007
In 1911, Weber persuaded photographer Alfred Stieglitz to put on the first Picasso show in America at his legendary 291 Gallery in New York. "So there was a lot of recognition that Picasso was important," Fitzgerald said. (CBS News)
