Object Details
Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe, American, b. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 1887–1986
Provenance
An American Place, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Watter, Philadelphia, before 1946-1967
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, sale no. 2600, lot no. 23, 19 October 1967
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 19 October 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. "American Art from the Sonia and Michael Watter Collection," 13 June-5 October 1958.
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, no. 144.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 418, ill. p. 300.
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, 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, 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," 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.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. "America's Smithsonian: Celebrating 150 Years," 1996, cat.
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.
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, "O'Keeffe and Moore: From Bones and Stones to the Studio," 6 February-9 June 2024, no. 111, color ill. p. 151.
Published References
UNSIGNED. "Exhibitions in the New York Galleries," Art News 28, no. 21 (22 February 1930), p. 10.
UNSIGNED. "59 U.S. Art Works Sold for $253,875," New York Times (21 October 1967), p. 14.
UNSIGNED. "Masterpieces from Philadelphia Private Collections--Part II," Philadelphia Museum Bulletin 45 (Spring 1950), p. 97.
LERNER, ABRAM. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), no. 418, ill. p. 300.
BRITSCH, RALPH and TODD BRITSCH. The Arts in Western Culture (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 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), pp. 107, 110.
MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH. Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993), colorpl. 103.
WRIGHT, SUSAN. Georgia O'Keeffe: An Eternal Spirit (Todtri Productions Limited, 1996), p. 86.
LYNES, BARBARA BUHLER. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (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), vol. I, no. 691.
JOHNSTON, HANNAH. Georgia O'Keeffe (London: Tate Publishing, 2016), fig. 42, p. 52.
VIEVILLE, CAMILLE. Georgia O'Keeffe (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2021), fig. 187 (color).
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 51, p. 72.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Date
1929-1930
Accession Number
72.216
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
10 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (25.5 × 61.2 cm)
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School
Early American Modernism
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Link to Original Record
Record ID
hmsg_72.216