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Georgia O'Keeffe
Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif), 1927
Georgia O'Keeffe
Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif), 1927
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe (1987.250.1)

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Catalogue Raisonné Number

601

Inscriptions

Stretcher: "# 1" (unidentified hand, graphite). Verso: "G. O'Keeffe / Aug. – Sept. / 1927 / – " (white paint). Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) [twice] 2. ". . . by Mrs. Keck, April 8 – 46" (graphite) 3. "New York – N.Y." (AIC label, black ink) 4. AAP2 5. AAP9

Provenance

Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, Rhode Island, by 1966; The artist, date unknown; Estate of the artist, 1986

Exhibition History

1928 New York (Intimate Gallery – O'Keeffe), no. 18, as White Rose – Abstraction; 1943 Chicago, no. 17; 1946 New York (MOMA – Retro), no. 25; 1966 Fort Worth; 1970 New York (Whitney), no. 51; 1993 Berlin
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Source System ID

8669