Photographer and modern art promoter (1864–1946), husband of Georgia O'Keeffe, who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form. ALS in pencil, signed “Stieglitz,” one page, 6 x 9.25, June 26, 1938. Handwritten letter to Mrs. Horace Lamb, in part: “It's good to hear from you. To know your bursting with energy--the spirit of life. Good to know you are writing and good to know the child is mending and that you have more time for yourself. I feel as utterly useless even though I am on the mend. It’s slow work. How stupid for me to have collapsed.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. In early 1938 Stieglitz suffered a serious heart attack, one of six coronary or angina attacks that would strike him over the next eight years. Each would leave him increasingly weakened, and his recovery times would lengthen after each one. Still, as soon as he was strong enough, he would return to his gallery, An American Place, and pick up where he left off.
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