White Feather, 1941
White Feather, 1941
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.166
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
The composition is a foreshortened vertical abstraction of a corner of an adobe fireplace with a white vase and feather sitting on the mantel adjacent to a yellow ochre vertical stripe. A single white feather has been placed in a white vase as the focal point of the work.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
1013
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: inaccessible
Backing:
1. "For Cady / Georgia O'Keeffe / Summer 1941 - " (white label, black ink)
2. "Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, white label, black ink)
Provenance
Estate of the artist, 1986 Georgia O'Keeffe 1986 Abiquiu/New Mexico, The artist, 1947 Georgia O'Keeffe 1947 Abiquiu/New Mexico, Cady Wells, Pojoaque, New Mexico, c. 1942 Cady Wells 1942 Pojoaque/New MexicoExhibition History
1942 New York (An American Place), no. 7, as White Feather;1947 Fort Worth
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2014 Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-life Painting in New Mexico, Indianapolis Museum of Art (Nov. 2, 2014 - Feb. 15, 2015); Tacoma Museum of Art,(March 1 - June 7, 2015);Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (June 25, 2015 - Sept. 13, 2015); Art Museum of South Texas (Oct 15, 2015 - Jan. 3, 2016)
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift
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