Georgia O’Keeffe’s First Flowers
During her years as a Texas schoolteacher, the artist discovered abstraction, Robert M. Coates writes. Then Alfred Stieglitz, at his popular picture gallery, 291 Fifth Avenue, discovered her.
July 6, 1929
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