Black Cross with Stars and Blue, 1929
Black Cross with Stars and Blue, 1929
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Museum Purchase
2021.4.1
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical painting with a large black cross spanning the surface of the picture plane with a massive cross beam running across the upper quadrant and the base stem running the vertical length of the painting. The cross is slightly off center to the viewers left. Looming behind the cross is a rolling mountain range of deep blues hues. Soft white light illuminates the edge of mountain tops and rises into a glorious gradation of of turquoise and blue sky, dotted with white circular stars.
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668
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Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessibleProvenance
(Doris Bry, New York, NY); John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1976; Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, 1977Exhibition History
1930 New York (An American Place), no. 12, as Black Cross with Stars and Blue; 1977 San Francisco, no. 13; 1993 London (Hayward), no. 60CREDITS & RIGHTS
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Purchase
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