Georgia O'Keeffe, American, b. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 1887–1986 Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
10 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (25.5 × 61.2 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1929-1930
Provenance:
An American Place, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Watter, Philadelphia, before 1946-1967
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 2600, lot no. 23, 19 October 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1967-1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History:
AN AMERICAN PLACE, New York. "New Paintings by Georgia O'Keefe," 7 February-17 March 1930.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "Masterpieces from Philadelphia Private Collections-Part II," 20 May-15 September 1950.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "Sonia and Michael Watter Collection," 13 June-5 October 1958, no cat.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, Philadelphia. "Twentieth Century American Painting and Sculpture from Philadelphia Private Collection," 25 October-30 November 1958.
CORCORAN GALLERY, Washington, DC. "Wilderness!!! at the Corcoran," 1 October-14 November 1971, cat. no. 144.
MCKISSICK MUSEUM, University of South Carolina, Columbia. "Georgia O'Keefe," 20 August-26 September 1980. TOUR: GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART, Charleston, South Carolina, 10 October-9 November.
PARRISH ART MUSEUM, Southampton, New York. "An American Place," 24 May-19 July 1981, cat. no. 40.
NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Roslyn Harbor, New York. "Nevelson and O'Keefe: Independents of the Twentieth Century," 30 January 1983-10 April 1983, cat. no. 33, p. 31.
MADISON ART CENTER, Wisconsin. "Georgia O'Keefe--at the Madison Art Center," 25 February-22 April 1984.
INTERCULTURA, Fort Worth. "Georgia O'Keefe: American and Modern," cat. no. 75. TOUR: HAYWARD GALLERY, London, 9 April-22 June 1993; PALACIO DE BELLAS ARTES, Mexico City, 15 July-1 October; YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Japan, 30 October-16 January 1994.
BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART, California. "Decades of Georgia O'Keefe," 20 January-28 March 2000.
MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION, Kleinberg, Ontario. "A Place of Their Own: Carr, O'Keefe, Kahlo," 30 June-September 2001. TOUR: SANTA FE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, October-December; NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, Washington, DC, February-April 2002; VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, June-August .
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM, Santa Fe. "O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place," 11 June-12 September 2004.
IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Dublin. "Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature & Abstraction,"
6 March-13 May 2007. TOUR: VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 5 October-13 January 2008.
ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Newport Beach, California. "Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Miller Pierce," 3 May-13 September 2009.
TATE MODERN, London. "Georgia O'Keeffe," 6 July-30 October 2016, fig. 140, p. 156; p. 253. Tour: KUNSTFORUM WIEN, Vienna, 7 December-26 March 2017; ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, Toronto, 22 April-30 July.
MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, Madrid. "Georgia O'Keeffe," 20 April-8 August 2021, no. 64, color ill. p. 190. Tour: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ART ET DE CULTURE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, 8 September-6 December 2021; FONDATION BEYELER, Riehen/Basel, 23 January 2022-22 May.
Published References:
UNSIGNED. "Exihibtions in the New York Galleries," Art News 28/21 (22 February 1930): p. 10.
UNSIGNED. "59 U.S. Art Works Sold for $253, 875," The New York Times (21 October 1967): p. 14.
UNSIGNED. "Masterpieces from Philadelphia Private Collections--Part II," Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, 45 (Apring 1950): p. 97.
BRITSCH, RALPH and TODD BRITSCH. The Arts in Western Culture (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1984): p. 418.
CASTRO, JAN GARDEN. The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1985): p. 114.
ELDREDGE, CHARLES. Georgia O'Keeffe, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1991): p. 107, 110.
MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH. Georgia O'Keeffe, (New York: Barnes & Nobles Books, 1993): color plate 103.
WRIGHT, SUSAN. Georgia O'Keeffe: an Eternal Spirit (Todtri Productions Limited, 1996): p. 86.
LYNES, BARBARA BUHLER. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1999): volume I, no. 691.
