Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif) by Georgia O'Keeffe
Art Institute of Chicago

Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif)

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1927

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico, then Abiquiú, NM, from 1949 [Last Will and Testament, Aug. 2, 1979; Gift Agreement, Aug. 24, 1987]; bequeathed through the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Intimate Gallery, O'Keeffe Exhibition, Jan. 11–Feb. 27, 1927, cat. 18, as White Rose––Abstraction.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, Jan. 21–Feb. 22, 1943, cat. 17.
  • Berlin, Martin–Gropius–Bau, American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture, 1913–1993, May 8–July 25, 1993; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Sept. 16–Dec. 12, 1993 (Berlin only).
  • Washington DC, Phillips Collection, Georgia O'Keeffe: the Poetry of Things, Apr. 17–July 18, 1999; Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Aug. 7–Oct. 17, 1999; Dallas Museum of Art, Nov. 7, 1999–Jan. 30, 2000; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Feb. 19–May 14, 2000 (Washington DC only) as Abstraction: White Rose.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction, Sept. 17, 2009–Jan. 17, 2010; Washington DC, Phillips Collection, Feb. 6–May 9, 2012; Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, May 28–Sept. 12, 2010 (New York only).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9539/georgia-o-keeffe-my-new-yorks"><em>Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks"</em></a>, June 2–Sept. 22, 2024, cat. 31; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Oct. 25, 2024–Feb. 16, 2025.

Literature

Published references

  • Barbara Buhler Lynes, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné," (National Gallery of Art/Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation/Yale University Press, 1999) no. 601 (vol. 1).
  • Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), cat. 77. 50.
  • Sarah Kelly Oehler and Annelise K. Madsen, eds., <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks"</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2024), pl. 31 (ill.).

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