Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986)
Near Abiquiu, New Mexico
(Near Abiquiu, New Mexico–Hills to the Left), 1941
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Oil on canvas
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12 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
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2023 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Provenance
- Doris Bry, New York, New York
- Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York, New York
- Baron Henry Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano, Switzerland, 1974, acquired from above
- Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York
- Private collection, New York, 1987, acquired from above
- Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, 1999
- Collection J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Foundation for American Art
Exhibited
Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1941, An American Place, New York, New York, February 2–March 17, 1942 (as Hills to the Left)
Painting in the United States, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 14–December 12, 1943
Collezione Thyssen-Bornemisza: Arte Moderna, Arte Moderna, Villa Malpensata, Lugano, Switzerland, September 1–November 5, 1978
America and Europe: A Century of Modern Masters from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, October 2–November 18, 1979; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, December 7, 1979–February 3, 1980; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, February 12–March 30, 1980; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, April 16–May 30, 1980; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, July 26–August 24, 1980
An American Place, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, May 24–July 19, 1981
American Masters: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, February 23–April 21, 1985; McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, May 18–July 15, 1985
Georgia O’Keeffe: 1887–1986, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 1, 1987–February 21, 1988; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, November 19, 1988–February 5, 1989
Georgia O’Keeffe: American and Modern, The Hayward Gallery, London, England, April 8–June 27, 1993; El Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, July 15–October 1; Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, October 30, 1993–January 16, 1994
Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 11–September 12, 2004; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, October 1, 2004–January 16, 2005; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, January 28–May 8, 2005
Cross Currents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, October 29, 2015–April 9, 2016
Literature
Jack Cowart and Juan Hamilton, Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1987), no. 98.
Charles C. Eldredge, Georgia O’Keeffe: American and Modern (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 225, plate 74.
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe, Catalogue Raisonné, vol 2 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 645, no. 1026.
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-Kempes, and Frederick W. Turner, Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place (Princeton: Princeton University Press and Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2004), 102, plate 45.
Joseph S. Czestochowski, Georgia O’Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime (Memphis: International Arts, 2004), 143, pl. 62.
Virginia M. Mecklenburg et al., Cross Currents: Modern Art from the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Collection (Washington, DC, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2015), 88, 90, 91.
Note
Georgia O’Keeffe began taking extended trips to northern New Mexico in 1929, and, by 1949, she made Abiquiu her permanent residence. O’Keeffe depicted the surrounding area on numerous occasions, emphasizing the splendor of the sparse desert landscape.
Related Work
Near Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1930, oil on canvas, 10 x 24⅛ inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Purple Hills Ghost Ranch No II, 1934, oil on canvas, 16¼ x 30¼ inches; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Red and Yellow Cliffs, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Abiquiu Sand Hills and Mesa, 1945, oil on canvas, 16 x 36 inches; The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Lavender Hill with Green, 1952, oil on canvas, 12 x 27 3/16 inches; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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