Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands
OR:
Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

''Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands'', also known as ''Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands)'', is a black and white photograph taken by
Alfred Stieglitz Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. In addition to his photography, Stieglitz was kno ...
in 1919. It is part of a large group of more than 300 photographs that he took of the painter
Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of Amer ...
, from 1917 prior to their 1924 marriage, through 1937.


History and description

Stieglitz took several pictures of O'Keeffe hands around 1919, and this is one of the better known. He was interested in exploring the portraiture of his model, often without showing her face, but other parts of her body, like her hands, feet and torso. Her hands attracted him particularly because they were the creators of the art that he admired. In this picture, O'Keeffe is dressed in black and gives the picture a totally dark background. She does an artistic and dramatic gesture, as she pauses her right hand at the bottom of her left hand, with the fingers in both hands partially bended.


Art market

This picture was the most expensive photograph of the artist ever sold, when auctioned for $1,472,000 at
Sotheby's Sotheby's () is a British-founded American multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, and ...
New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...
on 14 February 2006.


Public collections

There are prints of this photograph at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, in
New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...
, the
National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...
, in
Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...
, the
Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...
, in
Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...
, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Fr ...
, and the
George Eastman House The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...
, in
Rochester Rochester may refer to: Places Australia * Rochester, Victoria Canada * Rochester, Alberta United Kingdom *Rochester, Kent ** City of Rochester-upon-Medway (1982–1998), district council area ** History of Rochester, Kent ** HM Prison ...
.Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands), Sotheby's
/ref>


See also

* '' Georgia O'Keeffe - Torso'', 1918


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands 1919 in art 1910s photographs Black-and-white photographs Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz Photographs in the National Gallery of Art Photographs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Georgia O'Keeffe