Winter Tree III, 1953
Winter Tree III, 1953
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.28
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Large brown leafless cottonwood tree with extending branches that is enlarged to fill the entire canvas. Areas of hazy grey and white give a feathered softened element to the winter feeling evoked by the tree situated in a tan-orange background. Along the bottom edge beneath the tree is a dark brown and orange area that permeates up and blends into the background.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
1267
Inscriptions
Inscriptions Backing:1. "Winter Tree III -1953 / Georgia O'Keeffe / Abiquiu, N.M." (graphite)
2. "...h Blue1925" [Inscription partially scratched out] (verso of backing graphite)
3. OK* (verso of backing graphite)
4. Yellow Birth / 1925 / O'Keeffe /(line drawn through the middle of partial text in cat. rais.) “ (AS, verso of backing, graphite)
5. "Yellow Birch with Blue - 1925" (line drawn through the middle of partial text in cat. rais.) (AD, verso of backing, graphite)
4. "Yellow Birch /
Provenance
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, New York, N.Y., 1961 Andrew Crispo, New York, N.Y., 1980 Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 7064, lot no. 181, 3 December 1997Exhibition History
1954 New York (Downtown--Summer)1955 New York (Whitney--Annual), no. 95
1959 Washington (Corcoran--Biennial)
1983 Roslyn, no. 45
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) AV: Cottonwoods
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's New Mexico
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Burnett Foundation Gift
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