Description A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O\'Keeffe\'s husband.
Her books include the acclaimed biography of Virginia Woolf, Woman of Letters , and her classic Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages..
About the Author Phyllis Rose is a literary critic and biographer.
His galleries were not dealerships so much as open universities, where he introduced European modern art to Americans and nurtured an appreciation of American art among American artists.
His first gallery, 291, was the first American gallery to show works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse, and other great European modernists.
By the time he was sixty, he gave up photography and devoted himself to selling and promoting art.
After returning to America, he became one of the first American photographers to achieve international fame.
Born in New Jersey, Stieglitz at age eighteen went to study in Germany, where his father, a wool merchant and painter, insisted he would get a proper education.
This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stieglitz as a revolutionary force in the history of American art.
Description A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O\'Keeffe\'s husband
