
Art Institute of Chicago
Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1931
Provenance
Ownership history
- Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico [letter from O’Keeffe to Daniel Catton Rich, Nov. 14, 1947; copy in curatorial object file]; given through the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932</em>, Oct. 31, 1932–Jan. 31, 1933, cat. 76.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7588/retrospective-exhibition-of-paintings-by-georgia-o-keeffe"><em>Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe</em></a>, Jan. 21–Feb. 22, 1943, cat. 45.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, <em>History of an American: Alfred Stieglitz, 291 and After</em>, July 1–Nov. 1, 1944.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, May 14–Aug. 25, 1946, cat. 43.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters</em>, Nov. 1, 1987–Feb. 21, 1988, cat. 75; Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–June 19, 1988; Dallas Museum of Art, July 31–Oct. 16, 1988; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nov. 19, 1988–Feb. 5, 1989.
- Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs</em>, Dec. 12, 1992–Apr. 4, 1993, cat.; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Arts, Apr. 27– June 26, 1993; Minneapolis, July 17–Sept. 12, 1993; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 2–Dec. 5, 1993.
- Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, <em>Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat.; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994 (organized by ASAHI Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan).
- Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries</em>, Jan. 28–Apr. 22, 2001, cat. 174.
- Milwaukee Art Museum, <em>O’Keeffe’s O’Keeffes: The Artist’s Collection</em>, May 5–Aug. 19, 2001, cat. 56; Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Sept. 14, 2001–Jan. 13, 2002; Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Feb. 8–May 20, 2002.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/1952/america-after-the-fall-painting-in-the-1930s"><em>America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s</em></a>, June 5–Sept. 18, 2016, cat. 38; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Oct. 15, 2016–Jan. 30, 2017; London, Royal Academy, Feb. 25–June 4, 2017 (Paris and London only).
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 56.
Literature
Published references
- Holger Cahill, <em>American Painting and Sculpture, 1862–1932</em>, exh. cat. (W.W. Norton & Co., 1932), cat. 76.
- Georgia O'Keeffe, James Warren Lane, and Leo Katz, <em>The Work of Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portfolio of Twelve Paintings</em> (Dial Press, 1939), n.p.
- Daniel Catton Rich, "Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe," <em>Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago</em> 37, no. 2 (Feb. 1943): 19, <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/4115203">https://doi.org/10.2307/4115203</a>.
- Daniel Catton Rich, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1943), 30, 32, 34, cat. 45 (ill.).
- Museum of Modern Art, <em>Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1946), cat. 43.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “The Stieglitz Collection,” <em>Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago</em> 43, no. 4 (Nov. 15, 1949): cover, 70 (ill.), <a href="https://doi.org/10.2307/4111956">https://doi.org/10.2307/4111956</a>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 346.
- Jack Cowart and Juan Hamilton, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe, Art and Letters</em>, exh. cat. (National Gallery of Art; Boston: Bulfinch Press: Little, Brown, and Company, 1989), cat. 75.
- Belinda Rathbone, <Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs</em>, exh. cat. (HarperCollins, 1992), 113, cat. (ill.).
- Barbara Buhler Lynes, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné</em>, vol. 1 (National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), no. 772.
- Sarah Greenough, <Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries</em>, exh. cat. (Bulfinch Press, 2001), cat. 174.
- Barbara Buhler Lynes and Russel Bowman, <em>O’Keeffe’s O’Keeffes: The Artist’s Collection</em>, exh. cat. (Thames & Hudson, 2001), cat. 56.
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