What was 291?

Answer 1

291 was the popular name given to the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, an art gallery set up in 1905 by photographers Alfred Stieglitz, F. Holland Day and Edward Steichen. The name was taken from the gallery's address, 291 Fifth Ave., New York, NY.

Although the initial aim of the gallery was to promote Photography as a fine art form, only the very first exhibit was made up only of photographs. Soon, different forms of modern art, including paintings, sculpture and graphic arts, were exhibited at 291. Some of the artists to receive their own shows at the gallery were Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Arthur Beecher Carles and the woman who would later become Stieglitz's wife, Georgia O'Keeffe.

The gallery closed in 1917.