Black Cross, New Mexico by Georgia O'Keeffe
Art Institute of Chicago

Black Cross, New Mexico

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1929

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico; with An American Place, New York, by 1943; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, An American Place, New Paintings: New Mexico, New York, Lake George, 1930, no. 14.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jan. 21–Feb. 22, 1943, cat. 28 (ill. p. 28).
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, 1943, cat. by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller, no. 157.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, Georgia O’Keeffe, May 14–Aug. 25, 1946, no cat.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, <em>Landmarks in American Art, 1670–1950</em>, Feb. 26–Mar. 28, 1953, cat. 48.
  • IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 21.
  • Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966</em>, Mar. 17–May 8, 1966, cat.; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 26–July 3, 1966.
  • New York, Whitney Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe, Oct. 8–Nov. 29, 1970; cat. by Lloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry, p. 18, no. 63; the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 1–Feb. 7, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 15–Apr. 30, 1971.
  • Denver Art Museum, Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe, Jan. 12–Mar. 17, 1974, cat. by Pat Trenton, p. 161, no. 15.
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico, Governor’s Gallery, State Capitol Building, Georgia O’Keeffe, Apr. 27–May 25, 1975, no. cat.
  • San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, Georgia O’Keeffe, Oct. 24–Nov. 30, 1975, no cat.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>The Natural Paradise: Painting in America, 1800–1950</em>, Sept. 29–Nov. 30, 1976, cat. 119.

Literature

Published references

  • Mable Dodge Luhan, “Georgia O’Keeffe in Taos,” Creative Art, 8, 6 (June 6, 1931) p. 406 ill.
  • “The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe in Taos,” Atelier, 101, (June 1931), 440 ill.
  • Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Norman, et al. eds., America and Alfred Stieglitz, (The Literary Guild, 1934), pl. XXB.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, “Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37, 2 (1943), 17–20.
  • Time, vol. Xlvii, 21 (May 1946), 75.
  • Mabel Dodge Luhan, Taos and Its Artists (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947).
  • Denys Sutton, American Painting (London: Avalon Press, 1948), 27, pl. 46.
  • Journal of the American Association of University Women, 45, 2 (1952). Inside front cover.
  • Mitchell A. Wilder, ed., <em>Georgia O’Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966</em>, exh. cat. (Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1966), 29.
  • “Georgia O’Keeffe: Landscape of the Mind,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, 64, 5 (November 1970).
  • John Russell, “Roots of U.S. Abstract Painting,” New York Times, September 30, 1975, 34.
  • Ron White, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Landscape of the Mind,” San Antonio Express–News, November 9, 1975, 7H ill.

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