Soft Gray, Alcalde Hill

Object Details

Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe, American, b. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 1887–1986

Provenance

An American Place, New York

Dr. and Mrs. Michael Watter, Philadelphia, before 1946-1967

Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 2600, lot no. 23, 19 October 1967

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1967-1972

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Exhibition History

AN AMERICAN PLACE, New York. "New Paintings by Georgia O'Keefe," 7 February-17 March 1930.

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "Masterpieces from Philadelphia Private Collections-Part II," 20 May-15 September 1950.

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART. "Sonia and Michael Watter Collection," 13 June-5 October 1958, no cat.

PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, Philadelphia. "Twentieth Century American Painting and Sculpture from Philadelphia Private Collection," 25 October-30 November 1958.

CORCORAN GALLERY, Washington, DC. "Wilderness!!! at the Corcoran," 1 October-14 November 1971, cat. no. 144.

MCKISSICK MUSEUM, University of South Carolina, Columbia. "Georgia O'Keefe," 20 August-26 September 1980. TOUR: GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART, Charleston, South Carolina, 10 October-9 November.

PARRISH ART MUSEUM, Southampton, New York. "An American Place," 24 May-19 July 1981, cat. no. 40.

NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Roslyn Harbor, New York. "Nevelson and O'Keefe: Independents of the Twentieth Century," 30 January 1983-10 April 1983, cat. no. 33, p. 31.

MADISON ART CENTER, Wisconsin. "Georgia O'Keefe--at the Madison Art Center," 25 February-22 April 1984.

INTERCULTURA, Fort Worth. "Georgia O'Keefe: American and Modern," cat. no. 75. TOUR: HAYWARD GALLERY, London, 9 April-22 June 1993; PALACIO DE BELLAS ARTES, Mexico City, 15 July-1 October; YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Japan, 30 October-16 January 1994.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. "America's Smithsonian: Celebrating 150 Years," 1996, cat.

BAKERSFIELD MUSEUM OF ART, California. "Decades of Georgia O'Keefe," 20 January-28 March 2000.

MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION, Kleinberg, Ontario. "A Place of Their Own: Carr, O'Keefe, Kahlo," 30 June-September 2001. TOUR: SANTA FE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, October-December; NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS, Washington, DC, February-April 2002; VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, June-August .

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM, Santa Fe. "O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place," 11 June-12 September 2004.

IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Dublin. "Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature & Abstraction,"

6 March-13 May 2007. TOUR: VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, 5 October-13 January 2008.

ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, Newport Beach, California. "Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Miller Pierce," 3 May-13 September 2009.

TATE MODERN, London. "Georgia O'Keeffe," 6 July-30 October 2016, fig. 140, p. 156; p. 253. Tour: KUNSTFORUM WIEN, Vienna, 7 December-26 March 2017; ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, Toronto, 22 April-30 July.

MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, Madrid. "Georgia O'Keeffe," 20 April-8 August 2021, no. 64, color ill. p. 190. Tour: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ART ET DE CULTURE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris, 8 September-6 December 2021; FONDATION BEYELER, Riehen/Basel, 23 January 2022-22 May.

Published References

UNSIGNED. "Exihibtions in the New York Galleries," Art News 28/21 (22 February 1930): p. 10.

UNSIGNED. "59 U.S. Art Works Sold for $253, 875," The New York Times (21 October 1967): p. 14.

UNSIGNED. "Masterpieces from Philadelphia Private Collections--Part II," Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, 45 (Apring 1950): p. 97.

BRITSCH, RALPH and TODD BRITSCH. The Arts in Western Culture (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1984): p. 418.

CASTRO, JAN GARDEN. The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1985): p. 114.

ELDREDGE, CHARLES. Georgia O'Keeffe, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1991): p. 107, 110.

MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH. Georgia O'Keeffe, (New York: Barnes & Nobles Books, 1993): color plate 103.

WRIGHT, SUSAN. Georgia O'Keeffe: an Eternal Spirit (Todtri Productions Limited, 1996): p. 86.

LYNES, BARBARA BUHLER. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1999): volume I, no. 691.

JOHNSTON, HANNAH. Georgia O'Keeffe (London: Tate Publishing, 2016), fig. 42, p. 52.

VIEVILLE, CAMILLE. Georgia O'Keeffe (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2021), fig. 187 (color).

AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 51, p. 72.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

1929-1930

Accession Number

72.216

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

10 1/8 × 24 1/8 in. (25.5 × 61.2 cm)

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School

Early American Modernism

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_72.216

Metadata Usage (text)

Not determined

GUID (Link to Original Record)

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