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Georgia O'Keeffe
Abstraction of Stream, 1921
Georgia O'Keeffe
Abstraction of Stream, 1921
Pastel on paper, 27 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.14

Vertical pastel in tones of orange, brown, rust, and ochre with touches of green and white. As if an arial view of a stream with a winding dark line flowing up through the middle of the page and forking into two near the top.
DETAILS

Catalogue Raisonné Number

342

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Backing:
1. "1921 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite)
2. OK * (graphite)
3. "An American Place, 509 Madison Ave., New York / Abstraction -- Stream / Pastel" (AS, First Municipal Art Exhibition Rockefeller Center label, black ink)

Provenance

Estate of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe 1986 Abiquiu/New Mexico, created by artist Georgia O'Keeffe 1921

Exhibition History

1923 New York (Anderson);
1934 New York (First Municipal), no. 673;
1952 New York (Downtown), no. 4;
1970 New York (Whitney), no. 28;
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Poetry of Things)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Modern Nature
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
CREDITS & RIGHTS

© Private Collection*, Burnett Foundation Gift


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Source System ID

144