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, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- See more items in
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- Early American Modernism
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_72.216
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py27a263a64-f0d7-4ab5-b71b-24b4a81b8757
