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How did Alfred Stieglitz discover Georgia O’Keeffe’s drawings?

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Alfred Stieglitz: photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe — Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, 1922.

Alfred Stieglitz discovered Georgia O’Keeffe’s drawings through a mutual acquaintance. In late 1915, while O’Keeffe was teaching at Columbia College in South Carolina, she mailed a series of her abstract drawings to a former classmate at Teachers College in New York.1

Early in 1916, this classmate took the drawings to "291," the famous avant-garde gallery operated by Alfred Stieglitz. Impressed by the work, Stieglitz included 10 of her drawings in a group exhibition at the gallery in May 1916 and subsequently sponsored a solo show for her in April 1917.1