Object Details
Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe, American, b. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 1887–1986
Provenance
Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place, New York
Downtown Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Watter, Philadelphia
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, sale no. 2600, lot no. 42, 19 October 1967
Joseph Hirshhorn, New York, 19 October 1967-1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
AN AMERICAN PLACE, New York. "Georgia O'Keeffe," 4 February-27 March 1946, no. 12.
DOWNTOWN GALLERY, New York. "Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings in Pastel, 1914-1915," 19 February-9 March 1952, no. 23.
MAYO HILL GALLERIES, Delray Beach, Florida. "Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective," 16 March-11 April 1953. Tour: DALLAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 1-22 February 1953.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "American Art from the Sonia and Michael Watter Collection," 13 June-5 October 1958.
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, Philadelphia. "Twentieth Century American Painting and Sculpture from Philadelphia Private Collections," 25 October-30 November 1958, no. 281.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "Philadelphia Collects Twentieth Century," 3 October-17 November 1963, p. 28, ill.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 492, color ill. p. 350.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Georgia O'Keeffe," 1 November 1987-21 February 1988.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, Washington, DC. "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture," 22 October 2010 -6 February 2011.
MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 47.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960," 22 March 2024-3 January 2027, no cat.
Published References
UNSIGNED. "O'Keeffe Annual," Art Digest 20, no. 11 (1 March 1946), p. 15.
UNSIGNED. "A Picture is a Picture," Seventeen 8 (1949), p. 144.
MCBRIDE, HENRY. "Georgia O'Keeffe in Pastel," Art News 51 (March 1952), p. 49.
UNSIGNED. "59 U.S. Art works sold for $253, 875," New York Times (21 October 1967), p. 14.
LERNER, ABRAM. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), no. 492, color ill. p. 350.
LERNER, ABRAM. Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), no. 62.
WOMEN'S PROGRAM OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Women Artists: A Checklist of Works in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), ill.
PARK, EDWARDS. Treasures of the Smithsonian (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books; New York: Trade distribution by Abrams, 1983).
UNSIGNED. Art Education 37, no. 4 (July 1984), ill. front cover.
CASTRO, JAN GARDEN. The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Crown Publishers, 1985), p. 172.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO, Santa Fe. Georgia O'Keeffe: Works on Paper (Museum of New Mexico, 1985), pl. 34.
ZELLMAN, MICHAEL DAVID. American Art Analog, Volume III: 1874-1930 (Chelsea House Publishers, American Art Analog, 1986), p. 857.
ROSE, BARBARA. "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986, A Revolutionary Personality, a Creative Genius," The Village Voice (1986), pp. 290-292.
UNSIGNED. School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers (April 1986), ill. front cover.
BARKER, PHYLLIS CLAUSEN. Short Lessons in Art History: 35 Artists and Their Work (Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, 1987), p. 172.
GHIGNA, CHARLES. "Georgia O'Keeffe," Artist's Magazine 5, no. 5 (May 1998).
ROSENFELD, LUCY DAVIDSON. Women Artists from Ancient to Modern Times (Portland, Maine: J. Weston Walch, 1989), no. 118, p. 40.
UNSIGNED. English Teaching Forum 30, no. 3 (July 1992), ill. front cover.
MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH. Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), colorpl. p. 127.
CONSTANTINO, MARIA. Georgia O'Keefe (New York: Smithmark, 1994), ill. p. 168.
UNSIGNED. Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings (New York/Avenel, New Jersey: Wings Books, 1994), colorpl. p. 31.
BROUDE, NORMA and MARY D. GARRARD, eds. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994), colorpl. p. 26.
REESE, NICHOLAS. Washington (London: Studio Editions, 1995), colorpl. p. 6.
MCALLISTER, JANE. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996), colorpl. p. 68; p. 69.
HARDIN, JENNIFER. Georgia O'Keeffe: the Artist in Focus (St. Petersburg, Florida: Museum of Fine Arts, 1998), p. 28.
LYNES, BARBARA BUHLER. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1999), vol. II, no. 1110.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 53, p. 74.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Date
(1945)
Accession Number
72.217
Type
Drawing
Medium
Pastel on paperboard mounted on paperboard
Dimensions
27 7/8 × 31 11/16 in. (70.7 × 80.4 cm)
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School
Early American Modernism
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Link to Original Record
Record ID
hmsg_72.217