
Art Institute of Chicago
Abiquiu Sand Hills and Mesa
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1945
Provenance
Ownership history
- Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico, then Abiquiú, NM, from 1949; sold to Paul Rosenbaum (1897–1982) and Gabriella Rosenbaum (1905–2000; born Gabriella Kramer), Chicago and Palm Springs, FL, 1967 [documentation in curatorial object file]; by descent to Gabriella Rosenbaum; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, An American Place, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings, 1944," Jan. 22–March 22, 1945, no cat. (not on checklist, listed by Doris Bry, as <em>Abiquiu country</em>).
- New York, Downtown Gallery, <em> Spring Exhibition</em>, 1947, no cat.
- Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, <em>Painting in the United States</em>, Oct. 9–Dec. 7, 1947, cat. 4.
- Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, <em>Paintings from Alumae Collections</em>, Oct. 14–Nov. 18, 1959, cat. 37.
- Milwaukee, The Center, <em>Ten Americans</em>, Sept. 21–Nov. 5, 1961.
- New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, <em>Six American Modernists</em>, Nov. 9, 1991–Jan. 4, 1992.
- Bentonville, AR, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, <em>The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art</em>, May 26–Sept. 3, 2018, no cat. no.; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Oct. 13, 2018–Jan. 20, 2019 (Bentonville only).
Literature
Published references
- Carnegie Institute, <em>Painting in the United States, 1947</em>, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1947), cat. 4.
- Barbara Buhler Lynes, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné</em>, vol. 2 (National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), no. 1115.
- Chad Alligood, et al.,<em>The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art</em>, exh. cat. (Bentonville, AR: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2018), 119 (ill.).
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