Winter Cottonwoods East V, 1954
Winter Cottonwoods East V, 1954
Oil on canvas, 40 x 36 1/16 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.24
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Two brown leafless cottonwood trees with intertwined branches that are enlarged to fill the entire canvas. Areas of hazy grey give a feathered softened element to the winter feeling evoked by the trees situated in a tan-orange background.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
1276
Inscriptions
Inscription: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: inaccessible
Backing:
1. "Winter Cottonwoods East V 54 / 6" (graphite)
2. "Box 4" (DB, black ink)
Provenance
Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., by 1955 Estate of Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, 1985 Robert R. Young Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985 Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 5658, lot no. 10, 3 December 1987 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1987 Private Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996Exhibition History
1955 New York (Downtown--O'Keeffe), no. 121960 Worcester, no. 34
1966 Fort Worth
1970 New York (Whitney), no. 106
1990 Santa Fe, no. 12
1993 London (Hayward), no. 76
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
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)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM) * 4/28/09 hung to replace CR 1112
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) AV: Cottonwoods
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