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Georgia O'Keeffe
The Barns, Lake George, 1926
Georgia O'Keeffe
The Barns, Lake George, 1926
Oil on canvas, 21 x 32 ¼ inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Museum Purchase
2016.3.1

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
O'Keeffe⠡n abstract composition of interlocking cubes and triangles across the surface of the canvas clearly delineates the forms of the barns, even the specific details of a broken window. Sectional views of three barns with pitched roofs, overcast sky with clouds in background, abstracted foreground of green and white.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

523

Inscriptions

signed with initials ‘OK’ in artist’s star device (on a piece of
original backing affixed to the stretcher)

Provenance

[With]The Downtown Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Lurie, New York, acquired from the above, 1946. Private collection, by descent. [With]Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 1974. Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1974. Private collection, Shelburne, Vermont, acquired from the above, 1974. William Beadelston, Inc., New York and James Maroney, Inc., New York, 1983. Private collection, Sands Point, New York, 1985. James Graham & Sons, Inc., New York and James Maroney, Inc., New York, 1992. The Artis Group, Ltd., New York, 1993. Private collection, Millbrook, New York, acquired from the above, 1993. Sotheby’s, New York, 28 November 2001, lot 130, sold by the above. Acquired by the late owner from the above. The Collection of Kippy Stroud

Exhibition History

New York, The Intimate Gallery, /Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1926/,
January 11-February 27, 1927 (as /The Side of the Barn, No. I/).

Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, /Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe/,
June 6-September 1, 1927, no. 5.

New York, American Women’s Club, /Exhibition of Paintings (1924-1937) by Georgia O’Keeffe/, March 30-April 16, 1937, no. 6.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, /Georgia O’Keeffe/, May 14-August 25,
1946, no. 14 (as /Lake George Barns/).

Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, /Nebraska Art
Association Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition/, February 28-March 28, 1954.

Zu¨rich, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Zu¨rich, /Georgia O'Keeffe/, October 24,
2003-February 1, 2004, pp. 70, 193, no. 21, illustrated.

Thematic Galleries: New York 2016
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7735