Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe

The Metropolitan Museum OF Art in New York will present from October 13, 2011, to January 12, 2012, an exhibition of works that belong to the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, acquired by the MET in 1949. Entitled Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe, the show is the first large exhibitions of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and engravings from this collection. Besides his relevance as a great photographer from the end of the Nineteenth Century to the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Stieglitz (1864-1946) was also a US and European modern art promoter who amassed an important art collection. Through a group of influential New York galleries, between 1905 and 1946 Stieglitz exhibited many of the most important artists of the time and began to collect works by artists of the caliber of Henri Matisse, Charles Demuth, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Gino Severini, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Arthur Dove. Consisting of approximately 300 works, photographs, and publications by Stieglitz, the exhibition will include works like, Woman Ironing and Standing Female Nude, by Picasso; Garden of Love, by Kandinsky; Sleeping Muse, by Brancusi; Black Iris and Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, by O'Keeffe; I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, by Demuth; and Portrait of a German Officer, by Hartley; among others.