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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie's II, 1930
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie's II, 1930
Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.15

Horizontal landscape with blue peaks in the background, black and pure ground. Along the bottom edge is a strip of green foliage and trees.
DETAILS

Catalogue Raisonné Number

730

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: "A frame / flat frame (Marin) / [drawing of frame] silver frame used for barn 1932" (AS, graphite)
Backing:
1. "30" (graphite)
2. OK * (graphite)
3. "Taos" (Taos has strikeout line) Black Mesa [crossing out and 'Black Mesa' by OK, graphite] Landscape, New Mexico - / Georgia O'Keeffe / artist / (Rm 1710) 509 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y." (As Carnegie label, black ink)
4. "Taos landscape, New Mexico - / Georgia O'Keeffe / artist / (Rm 1710) 509 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y." (AS, Carnegie label [2nd one], black ink)

Provenance

George M. Harris, San Antonio, Tex., purchase, 1968 ^(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) ^The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1966

Exhibition History

1931 New York (An American Place), nos. 24-33, as Landscape near H & M Ranch
1931-32 New York (An American Place)
1986 New York (Hirschl & Adler), no. 22
1993 London (Hayward), no. 64
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) A Sense of Place; all venues
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Color and Conservation
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2010 Fort Worth (Cowgirl) GOK and the Faraway
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway) *Installed 4/19/13 announcing the new US Postal Stamp
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Katsina)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modern Nature)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Abiquiu Views x 2)*Sept2014 replaced by 599 and moved to Gallery 3:
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) The Garden
CREDITS & RIGHTS

Burnett Foundation Gift, © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum


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