Bear Lake, New Mexico, 1930
Bear Lake, New Mexico, 1930
Oil on canvas, 24 x 9 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.22
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Small vertical canvas dominated by a large tree with a white trunk centered through the middle. The trunk blends from white to grey from the bottom up, with the rest of the canvas above filled with the dark green of the foliage. On the bottom left are two red tree trunks, and one red tree trunk on the right. Through the branches are hints of blue evening sky with little white dots as stars.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
745
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher; "16" (unidentified hand, graphite) Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe - 1930" (white paint)Provenance
(An American Place, New York, N.Y.) Mr. and Mrs. Zalmon Simmons, Greenwich, Conn., 1931 Desended in family ACA Galleries, New York, N.Y., and Joshua Mailman, New York, N.Y., 1987Exhibition History
1931 New York (An American Place), no. 23, as "Bear Lake, New Mexico";1931-32 New York (and American Place)?;
1961 Des Moines, no. 25;
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2001 Santa Fe (MFA) Places of their own: Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Frames of Preference
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) 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)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; SAAM, Norton, and SF MOMA venues only
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Katsina; all venues
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Burnett Foundation Gift
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