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Georgia O'Keeffe
Tan, Orange, Yellow, Lavender, 1959-1960
Georgia O'Keeffe
Tan, Orange, Yellow, Lavender, 1959-1960
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.17

Canvas on mostly firey orange, reddish and pink. Arial view of riverbed winding through the landscape, but abstracted to the point that the sinuous lines could be that of a tree.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1417

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible
Backing: "Tan, Orange, Yellow, lavender / 1960 / 1959
('1959' by DB, black ink) / Oil / 36 x 30 / Canvas" (OKR, blue 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

1961 New York (Downtown--Paintings), no. 7
1961 New York (Whitney--Annual)
1962 New York (Downtown--37th Anniv.), no. 3
1968 New York (American Academy of AL)
1989 Brooklyn
2001 Santa Fe (O'keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abiquiu Views x 2
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abiquiu Views (Gal 5) (GR Views / Covarrubias)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) The Wideness And Wonder Of The World
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Gift, © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum


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