
Art Institute of Chicago
Red Hills with Flowers
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1937
Provenance
Ownership history
- Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and NM, then Abiquiú, NM, from 1949; by exchange to Hortense Henry Prosser (1912–1992; born Hortense Henry; also Mrs. John Prosser), Lake Forest, IL, 1963 [Lynes 1999, vol. 1, 578, cat. 926; vol. 2, 825, cat. 1314]; through the Hortense Prosser Trust, Lake Forest, IL, 1992; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, June 5–Sept. 18, 2016, not in cat.; Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Oct. 15, 2016–Jan. 30, 2017; London, Royal Academy, Feb. 25–June 4, 2017 (Paris only).
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 57.
Literature
Published references
- Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1 (National Gallery of Art/Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation/Yale University Press, 1999) no. 926.
- 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), no. 69.
- Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 57.
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