Fri, Oct 03
|Old Town Hall
Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
A talk and slide show by local author Liza Bennett on her new book about the fascinating, lifelong friendship between these two remarkable women.
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Old Town Hall, 9 Main St, West Stockbridge, MA 01266, USA
Guests
About the event
Talk and slide show by local author Liza Bennett on her new book
about the fascinating, lifelong friendship between
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE and ANITA POLLITZER
Friday, October 3, 2025 at 7 p.m.
Liza Bennett, author of four novels set in the Berkshires, turns to creative nonfiction to tell the fascinating, little-known story of the enduring friendship between America’s first great woman artist and a charismatic leader of the suffragist movement. It was Anita Pollitzer who first showed Georgia O’Keeffe’s work to family friend and mentor Alfred Stieglitz, the world-famous photographer whose 291gallery in New York City was the epicenter of the modern art world. While O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and their circle of friends were at the forefront of American modernism, Pollitzer became a leader of the National Woman’s Party and was instrumental in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote.