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From the book Becoming O’Keeffe by Sarah Whitaker Peters. Photo of O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz.

I borrowed a book on O’Keeffe from Pratt Institute’s Library. Someone had written in the margins:

More to the point compare Pamela Colman Smith, The Wave, 1903, Whitney Museum of American Art.

Becoming O’Keeffe, page 57.

Searching for Georgia, I again find Pamela. A trickster may be at work!

O’Keeffe and Colman Smith exhibited works in Stieglitz’s 291 art gallery in midtown New York. The art gallery was in operating from 1905 - 1917 and located at 291 Fifth Avenue. It is not clear if O’Keeffe and Colman Smith knew each other. I can’t imagine they didn’t, being among only a few women artists exhibiting in New York.

Pamela Colman Smith, The Wave, c. 1903. Watercolor, ink, graphite on paper. At the Whitney Museum in November 1922.

Becoming O’Keeffe by Sarah Whitaker Peters.

Pamela Colman Smith, The Wave.