Exhibition of Oils and Pastels February 3-March 17, 1940
New York: An American Place, 1940. Single sheet, printed on recto and verso. Fine copy.
Handbill for O’Keeffe’s exhibition, including some works painted in Hawaii. Significant for presenting a brief artist’s statement. “Maybe the new place enlarges ones [sic] world a little. Maybe one takes one’s own world along and cannot see anything else.” An American Place was Stieglitz’s last gallery, which he opened in 1929 on the seventeenth floor of a newly constructed skyscraper on Madison Avenue. Stieglitz posted the gallery’s mission on a card in the space: “No formal press views / No cocktail parties / No special invitations / No advertising / No institutions / No isms / No theories / No game being played / Nothing asked of anyone who comes / No anything on the walls except what you see there / The doors of An American Place are ever open to all.” OCLC locates five copies. See Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer. Aperture, 1973. p. 205. Item #2580
Price: $250.00