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Georgia O'Keeffe
A Piece of Wood I, 1942
Georgia O'Keeffe
A Piece of Wood I, 1942
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.25

Vertical canvas of brown tones with small spiraling circle in the center, followed by concentric ovals filling out to the edges of the canvas.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1030

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible
Backing: "A Piece of Wood - I / by Georgia O'Keeffe 1942"
(AD, AAP3 black ink)

Provenance

James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 , Doris Bry, New York, NY, Joan T. Washburn, New York, NY

Exhibition History

1943 New York (An American Place), no. 11, as "A Piece of Wood - I"
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Frames of Preference / Maria Chabot / Sense of Place)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Circling Around Abstraction; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
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