Blue II, 1958
Blue II, 1958
Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.5
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical oil painting with strong vertical bands of grey, blue, and dark grey. The darkest grey band in the center alludes to some kind of shadowed space, where there is an edge of a window or doorway in the lower right. This dark area is flanked on either side by pillars of blue, followed on either side to fill to the end of the canvas grey bands. Overlaying from the upper left toward the lower right is a sweep of white that veils the underlying colors creating a visual diagonal across the composition.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
1331
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: inaccessible
Backing: "Blue 58 II / 1958 / Oil / 30 x 26 / Canvas - French" (OKR, black ink)
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
1958 New York (Downtown--Spring)1958 New York (Downtown--33rd), no. 3
1959 New York (Whitney--Annual), no. 93
1963 East Hampton
1986 Santa Fe
1988 Norman
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes:
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
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) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift
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