
Art Institute of Chicago
Beauford Delaney
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1943
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by the artist through Doris Bry (1920–2014), New York, to Barney A. Ebsworth (1934–2018), 1976; sold, Christie's, New York, Nov. 13, 2018, lot 2B, to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Georgia O'Keeffe, Oct. 8, 1970–Apr. 30, 1971, cat. 87.
- St. Louis Art Museum; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism 1911–1947, Nov. 20, 1987–June 5, 1988, pp. 144–45, 213, cat. 50 (ill.).
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Seattle Art Museum, Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, Mar. 5-Nov. 12, 2000, pp. 199–201, 293, cat. 51 (ill.).
- New York, The Museum of Modern Art, "Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time", April 4 - August 12, 2023, pp. 135-140, cat. 100 (ill.), cat. by Samantha Friedman, et. al.
Literature
Published references
- Doris Bry (ed.), Georgia O'Keeffe: Some Memories of Drawings (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1988), n.p., no. 15.
- B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn., 1999), 2:654, no. 1042 (ill.).
- H. Drohojowska-Philip, Full Bloom: the Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe (New York, 2005), pp. 401, 436.
- D. Ngo (ed.), Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection + Residence (San Francisco, Cal., 2006), n.p. (ill.).
- Barney Ebsworth, A World of Possibility: An Autobiography (Hunts Point, Wa., 2012), pp. 146–47).
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