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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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