
Art Institute of Chicago
Sky above Clouds IV
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1965
Provenance
Ownership history
- Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Abiquiú, NM [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1971]; partially sold and partially given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>, Mar. 17–May 8, 1966, as <em>Above the Clouds IV</em>, no cat. no.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe Exhibition</em>, May 28–July 3, 1966, as <em>Above the Clouds IV</em>.
- Los Angeles, Rolf Nelson Gallery, late 1966–early 1967, no cat.
- Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition</em>, Oct. 8–Nov. 29, 1970; the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 6–Feb. 7, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 15–Apr. 30, 1971, cover (ill.), cat. 120 (New York and Chicago only).
- Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters</em>, Nov. 1, 1987–Feb. 21, 1988; the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–June 19, 1988; Dallas Museum of Art, July 31–Oct. 16, 1988; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nov. 19, 1988–Feb. 5, 1989, cat. 120 (Washington, DC and Chicago only).
Literature
Published references
- Henry Seldis, "Georgia O'Keeffe at 78: Tough-Minded Romantic," <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, Jan. 22, 1967, A14.
- Barbara Buhler Lynes, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné</em>, vol. 2 (National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), no. 1498.
- Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, <em>Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe</em> (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004), 492–3, 505.
- René Paul Barilleaux and Sarah Whitaker Peters, eds., <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation</em>, exh. cat. (Jackson, MS, and State College, PA: Mississippi Museum of Art and Penn State University Press, 2006), 100.
- Sarah Rovang, "How John Deere and Eero Saarinen Inspired Georgia O’Keeffe’s Largest Painting," <em>Hyperallergic</em>, last modified April 2, 2020, <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/548956/how-john-deere-and-eero-saarinen-inspired-georgia-okeeffes-largest-painting">ttps://hyperallergic.com/548956/how-john-deere-and-eero-saarinen-inspired-georgia-okeeffes-largest-painting</a>, (ill.).
- Philip Kennicott and Matthew Cappucci, "Examining the Elements of Breathtaking Art: Weather patterns can help us understand what’s going on in these classic images," <em>The Washington Post</em>, last modified July 16, 2021, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2021/weather-patterns-in-art/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2021/weather-patterns-in-art</a>, (ill.).
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