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Georgia O'Keeffe
Stump in Red Hills, 1940
Georgia O'Keeffe
Stump in Red Hills, 1940
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 24 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Stéphane Janssen Trust in memory of R. Michael Johns
1996.7.2

Vertical canvas of vibrant red and orange hills dominated in the foreground by a twisting frayed brown tree stump - a piece of driftwood in a sea of reddish orange.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

999

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) James A. Michener, Pipersville, Pa., 1961 (The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) The artist, 1961 (Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Private collection, White Plains, N.Y., 1969 (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) Stéphane Janssen and Michael Johns, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1988/1989 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996

Exhibition History

1941 New York (An American Place--O'Keeffe), no. 12, as Stump in Red Hills
1961 Des Moines
1963 Washington (Corcoran--New Tradition), no. 78
1986 New York (Hirschl & Adler), no. 24
1988 Phoenix, no.
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) A Sense of Place; all venues
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Ghost Ranch Views
2015 New Mexico Museum of Art, Sept 11, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, Georgia O'Keeffe in Process
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