Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe by Gaston Lachaise in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2009

Gaston Lachaise. American, born in France, 1882-1935.

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1927
Marble

Accession # 49.92.4

This bust of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is one of more than seventy-five portaits Lachaise created in the 1920s, many of the famous figures in the art and literary worlds. In 1927 he also sculpted a portrait of Alfred Stieglitz, O'Keeffe's husband and the gallery owner who showed Lachaise's work in New York that year.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.