
Art Institute of Chicago
Blue and Green Music
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1919–21
Provenance
Ownership history
- Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico, then Abiquiú, NM, from 1949 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1949; letter from O’Keeffe to Charles C. Cunningham, Dec. 9, 1969; copy in curatorial object file]; given through the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Anderson Galleries, <em>Alfred Stieglitz Presents One Hundred Pictures: Oils, Water–colors, Pastels, Drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe, American</em>, Mar. 3–16, 1923, no. 27.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, Jan. 21–Feb. 22, 1943, cat. 5.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, Oct. 8–Nov. 29, 1970, cat. 23; the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 1–Feb. 7, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 15–Apr. 30, 1971.
- London, Tate Gallery, <em>Abstraction: Towards a New Art, Painting 1910–20</em>, Feb. 5–Apr. 13, 1980, cat. 438.
- London, Hayward Gallery, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern</em>, Apr. 8–June 22, 1993, cat. 21; Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, July 15–Oct. 1, 1993, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 1993–Jan. 16, 1994 (London and Mexico City only).
- San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, <em>O'Keeffe and Texas</em>, Jan. 27–Apr. 5, 1998, no. 35.
- Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America</em>, Jan. 28–Apr. 22, 2001.
- Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, <em>Visual Music, 1905–2005</em>; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Feb. 13–May 22, 2005, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 23–Sept. 11, 2005.
- Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, <em>Sons et Lumières: A History of Sound in 20th Century Art </em>, Sept. 22, 2004–Jan. 3, 2005.
- Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction</em>, 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).
- London, Tate Modern, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>, July 6–Oct. 30, 2016; Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Dec. 7, 2016–Mar. 26, 2017; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Apr. 22–July 30, 2017 (London only) cat. 28.
- Cologne, Germany, Wallraf–Richartz–Museum, <em>Es war einmal in Amerika – 300 Jahre US–amerikanische Kunst [Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of American Art]</em>, Nov. 23, 2018–Mar. 24, 2019, cat. 105.
Literature
Published references
- <em>Alfred Stieglitz Presents One Hundred Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe, American</em>, exh. cat. (The Anderson Galleries, 1923), no. 27.
- Herbert J. Seligmann, "Why 'Modern' Art?", <em>Vogue</em>, Oct. 15, 1923, 76–77 (ill.), as <em>Music</em>.
- Frank Jewett Mather et al., "Georgia O'Keeffe", in <em>The American Spirit in Art</em> vol. 12, <em>The Pageant of America</em>, ed. Ralph Henry Gabriel (Yale University Press, 1927), 155–78 (ill.), as <em>Music – Blue and Black and Green</em>.
- James W. Lane and Leo Katz, <em>The Work of Georgia O'Keeffe: a Portfolio of Twelve Paintings</em>, (Knight Publishers, 1937), pl. 6 (ill.), as <em>Music – Blue, Black and Green</em>.
- Sheldon Cheney, <em>A Primer of Modern Art</em> (Tudor Publishing Company, 1939), as <em>Music Black Blue and Green</em>.
- Daniel Catton Rich and Mitchell A. Wilder, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1943), 11, cat. 5 (ill.).
- Milton W. Brown, <em>American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression</em> (Princeton University Press, 1955), 126 (ill.).
- Lloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em> (Praeger, 1970), 32, cat. 23 (ill.).
- Tate Gallery, <em>Abstraction: Towards a New Art, Painting 1910–20</em>, exh. cat. (Tate Gallery Publications, 1980), 118, 120, cat. 438 (ill.).
- Charles C. Eldredge, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern</em>, exh. cat. (Yale University Press, 1993), cat. 21.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 46 (ill.).
- Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall, <em>O'Keeffe and Texas</em>, exh. cat. (Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum/Harry N. Abrams), cat. 35.
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