The Black Place by Georgia O'Keeffe
Art Institute of Chicago

The Black Place

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1943

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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, An American Place, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe Paintings–1943</em>, Jan. 11–Mar. 11, 1944, checklist only, no. 19.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, May 14–Aug. 25, 1946, checklist only, no. 50.
  • Fort Worth, 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; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 26–July 3, 1966.
  • New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, Oct. 8–Nov. 29, 1970, cat. 90; the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 1–Feb. 7, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 15–Apr. 30, 1971.
  • Pittsburgh, Museum of Art of the Carnegie Institute, <em>Forerunners of American Abstraction</em>, Nov. 18, 1971–Jan. 9, 1972, no. 80.
  • Kunsthaus Zurich, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>, Oct. 23, 2003–Feb. 1, 2004.

Literature

Published references

  • Daniel Catton Rich, “The Stieglitz Collection,” <em>Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, 18, (November 15, 1949), 70.
  • 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: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1966).
  • Lloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>, exh. cat. (Praeger, 1970), cat. 90.
  • Alexandra Arrowsmith and Thomas West, eds., <em>Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs</em> exh. cat. (HarperCollins/Callaway Editions. in association with the Phillips Collection, 1992), 105 (ill.).
  • 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. 1058.

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