Gerald's Tree I, 1937
Gerald's Tree I, 1937
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 1/8 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.35
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Brown and grey three pronged dead tree branching out across the vertical canvas against a reddish-orange earth background. Little tufts of green are scattered on the ground around the base of the tree.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
936
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Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: inaccessible
Backing: "Gerald's Tree II" (JH, black ink)
Provenance
Jack O'Grady, Chicago, Ill., 1975 ^The artist, unknown ^(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) ^Private Collection, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1984 ^(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) ^The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996Exhibition History
1937-38 New York (An American Place), no. 19, as Gerald's Tree I1966 Albuquerque
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Faraway
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Ghost Ranch Views
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Burnett Foundation Gift, © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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