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Georgia O'Keeffe
Gate of Adobe Church, 1929
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gate of Adobe Church, 1929
Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Gift in memory of Elisabeth Mellon Sellers from her friends [1974] (74.17)

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Catalogue Raisonné Number

660

Inscriptions

Stretcher: 1. "Marin frame flat silver" (graphite) 2. "#26" (unidentified hand, graphite) 3. "A" (unidentified hand, graphite). Backing: 1. "$2800" (AS, AAP6, black ink) 2. "Georgia O'Keeffe 5 / 1929 / Gate of Adobe Church – / New Mexico" (WE, AAP6, black ink) 3. AAP11

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, Woodbridge, Connecticut, 1947; (The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); The artist, exchange, 1958; Edith G. Halpert, New York, NY, by 1961; Estate of Edith G. Halpert, 1970; Sotheby Park Bernet Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 3484, lot no. 25, 15 March 1973; Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, 1973; Private collection, Miami, Florida, 1973; Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, 1973

Exhibition History

1931 New York (An American Place), among nos. 15-17, as Ranchos Church, New Mexico?; 1947 Boston, 1959 St. Louis (USIA); 1960 Clinton, no. 20; 1962 Washington (Corcoran); 1965 London; 1965 New York (Downtown – Group – January); 1966 Flint, no. 36; 1967 New York (Downtown – Group – December); 1968 New York (Downtown – Group – January)
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8721