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Georgia O'Keeffe
Drawing V, 1959
Georgia O'Keeffe
Drawing V, 1959
Charcoal on paper, 24 1/2 x 18 3/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.8

Abstract fluid charcoal drawing of thick, wide dark line down the center of the paper that S curves off to the left in the upper left corner. On the right branching off the main line is a V shaped thin line. As if looking down from an aerial view at a geological formation of a river cutting through the landscape.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1339

Inscriptions

Watermark: MBM (FRANCE) Ingres d'Arches

Inscriptions

Verso: inaccessible

Backing: none

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1986 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)

Exhibition History

1961 New York (Downtown--Paintings), no. 18
1987 Washington, no. 113
1993 London (Hayward), no. 89
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Frames of Preference / Maria Chabot / Sense of Place)
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)
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)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2015 New Mexico Museum of Art, Sept 11, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, Georgia O'Keeffe in Process
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