The Black Iris, 1926
The Black Iris, 1926
Oil on canvas, 9 x 7 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.19
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Small vertical canvas in purple, maroon, bluish-grey and white tones - very fluid and ruffled forms with a dominate dark purplish maroon circle in the center right, intercepted on the left by an undulating rippled fanlike shape in white and grey.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
558
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher:1. "The Black Iris 1926 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink)
2. "Georgia O'Keeffe -- 1926" (black ink)
3. "by Georgia O'Keeffe" (AS, IG, black ink [label cut off])
Provenance
(Alfred Stieglitz, New York, N.Y.) Mrs. Carlton H. Palmer, New York, N.Y., 1920s (Reinhardt Galleries, New York, N.Y.), unknown The artist, purchase, 1933 (The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Mr. and Mrs. John Denman, Bellevue, Wash., 1950 (A. J. Kollar, Fine Paintings, Seattle, WA.), 1989 (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.) Private collection, Washington, D.C., 1989 (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.)Exhibition History
1927 New York (Intimate Gallery), as "The Dark Iris No. II";1951 Tokyo;
1954 Tokyo;
1955 New York, no. 18;
1961 New York (MOMA);
1987 New York (Washburn), no. 87;
1987 Washington, no. 48;
1992 Washington
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz: Gift of GOKF
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) GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Women of the Stieglitz Circle; GOKM and High only
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift
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