
Art Institute of Chicago
The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y.
Georgia O'Keeffe · 1926
Provenance
Ownership history
- Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York; with the Intimate Gallery, New York, by 1927; sold to Alma Morgenthau Wertheim (1887–1953), New York, 1927; to her daughter, Anne Wertheim Langman (1914–1996), New York, after 1946. The Downtown Gallery, New York, by 1957; sold to Leigh B. Block (1905–1987), Chicago, June 18, 1957 [invoice, no. 7639, June 18, 1957; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The Intimate Gallery, 1927, as <em>The Shelton, New York No. II</em>.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em>, Oct. 8–Nov. 29, 1970, cat. 49; Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 1–Feb. 7, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 15–Apr. 30, 1971.
- CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, <em>Works by Living Artists from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block</em>, Feb. 11–Apr. 9, 1978, cat. 1.
- Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters</em>, Nov. 1, 1987–Feb. 21, 1988, cat. 57; 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.
- Washgington, DC, The Phillips Collection, <em>Two Lives: O'Keeffe and Stieglitz</em>, Dec. 12, 1992–Apr. 4, 1993; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Arts, Apr. 27–June 26, 1993; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–Sept. 12, 1993; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 2–Dec. 5, 1993 (Washington, DC, New York, and Minneapolis only).
- Berlin, Germany, Neue Nationalgalerie, <em>George Grosz: Berlin–New York</em>, Dec. 21, 1994–Apr. 17, 1995, cat. 111.3; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, May 6–July 30, 1995.
- Santa Fe, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, <em>Views of the City: 1910s–1940s</em>, Nov. 14, 2000–Mar. 14, 2001.
- Kunsthaus Zurich, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>, Oct. 23, 2003–Feb. 1, 2004.
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, <em>Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties</em>, Oct. 28, 2011–Jan. 22, 2012; Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 24–May 27, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 1–Sept. 16, 2012.
- FL, West Palm Beach, <em>O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York</em>, Feb. 18–May 15, 2016, cat. 56; ME, Portland Museum of Art, June 23–Sept. 18, 2016 (West Palm Beach only).
- Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional Thyssen–Bornemisza, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>, Apr. 20–Aug. 8, 2021, cat. 49; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sept. 8–Dec. 6, 2021; Switzerland, Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jan. 23–May 22, 2022.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9539/georgia-o-keeffe-my-new-yorks"><em>Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks"</em></a>, June 2–Sept. 22, 2024, cat. 12; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Oct. 25, 2024–Feb. 16, 2025.
Literature
Published references
- Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., “The Inland Steel Building and Its Art,” <em>Art In America </em> 45, no. 4 (Winter 1957–1958): 25.
- Lloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>, exh. cat. (Praeger, 1970), cat. 49.
- Susan F. Cohn, “An Analysis of Selected Works by Georgia O’Keeffe and a Production of Drawings by the Researcher Relating to the Work of the Artists Studied,” (PhD diss., New York University, 1974), 93–95, 98–105.
- Georgia O'Keeffe, <em>Georgia O’Keeffe</em> (A studio Book/The Viking Press, 1976), cat. 18.
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, <em>Works by Living Artists: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block</em>, exh. cat. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1978), cat. 1.
- <em>Art Institute of Chicago Mosaic</em> (Sept.–Oct. 1985), 8 (ill.).
- 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. 57.
- Peter-Klaus Schuster and Helen Adkins, <em>George Grosz, Berlin–New York</em>, exh. cat. (Berlin: Ars Nicolai, 1994), cat. 111.3.
- 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. 527 (ill.).
- “A Vibrant New York as O’Keeffe Framework,” <em>The Santa Fe New Mexican</em>, Nov. 22, 2000, (ill.).
- “Exhibition Follows Rise of American Artistic Vision,” <em>The Sunday Journal</em>, Nov. 26, 2000, F3 (ill.).
- “Group Show Views of the City: 1910s–1940s,” <em>THE Magazine, Dec.—Jan. 2000, 57 (ill.).</em>
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