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Georgia O'Keeffe
Nature Forms - Gaspé, 1932
Georgia O'Keeffe
Nature Forms - Gaspé, 1932
Oil on canvas, 10 1/4 x 24 inches
Private Collection
Loan, private collection
L.1998.7.4

Very intricate horizontal abstraction of wave-like swirls in white and blue in a rushing rippling sea of olive green tendons and teal veins. The dominant spiraling eddy of white is in the upper middle right, while the main thrust of the olive green flows from upper left across to lower right.
DETAILS

Catalogue Raisonné Number

819

Provenance

Estate of the artist 1986

Exhibition History

1933 New York (An American Place), no. 5, as "The Wave";
1943 Chicago, no. 46;
1947 Oberlin, no. 20;
1970 New York (Whitney), no. 77;
1971 Bryn Mawr, no. 9;
1987 Washington, no. 45;
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
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) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and the Camera)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
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Source System ID

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