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Black Hills with Cedar

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Object Details

Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe, American, b. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, 1887–1986
Provenance
Downtown Gallery, New York
Forum Gallery, New York, to 16 May 1974
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC, 16 May 1974-31 August 1981
Estate of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1981-1986
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Exhibition History
AN AMERICAN PLACE, New York. "Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1941," 2 February-17 March 1942, no. 14.
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "1943-1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," 23 November 1943-4 January 1944, no. 71.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Selections from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest," 7 August-16 November 1986, no. 70.
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris. "Feminine Masculine: Le sexe de l'art," 17 October 1995-8 January 1996, ill. p. 247.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, St. Petersburg, Florida. "Georgia O'Keeffe: the Artist in Focus," 15 November 1998-15 January 1999, no. 9, p. 20.
KUNSTHAUS ZURICH. "Georgia O'Keeffe: From the Plains," 24 October 2003-1 February 2004, cat.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART, Ann Arbor. "Georgia O’Keeffe and the Sublime Landscape," 10 July-26 September 2004. Tour: FRESNO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, 22 October-2 January 2005.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM, Santa Fe. "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities," 23 May-7 September 2008, color ill. p. 80. TOUR: SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM, Washington, DC, 26 September-4 January 2009; NORTON MUSEUM OF ART, West Palm Beach, Florida, 23 January-3 May; SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 9 June-20 September.
TATE MODERN, London. "Georgia O'Keeffe," 6 July-30 October 2016, fig. 159; p. 254. 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. 70, color ill. p. 199. 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.
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, "O'Keeffe and Moore: From Bones and Stones to the Studio," 6 February-9 June 2024.
Published References
WATSON, ERNEST W. "Georgia O'Keeffe," American Artist 7 (June 1943): p. 11, ill.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE FILES, DOWNTOWN GALLERY PAPERS, ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, DC, microfilm roll np. ND36, frame 70; microfilm rool no. NY59-15, frames 49-51; microfilm roll no. N678, frames 612-14.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE FILES, WHITNEY MUSEUM PAPERS, ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington, DC, microfilm roll no. NY59-13, frame 246.
RICHARD PAUL. "Hirshhorn: A Collector's Touch," The Washington Post, (9 August 1986): p. D8.
ELDERIDGE, CHARLES. Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991): p. 117.
MONTGOMERY, ELIZABETH. Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Barnes & Nobles, 1993): colorplate, p. 110.
WRIGHT, SUSAN. Georgia O'Keeffe: An Eternal Spirit (Todtri, 1996): p. 119.
UNSIGNED. Mosaid: News from the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. (October, November, December 1998): color ill., p. 6.
UNSIGNED. "Museum of Fine Arts offers unique perspectives on the works of Georgia O'Keeffe," Pinellas News (23 October 1998): p. 1, 3.
MILANI, JOAN. "Artist embodies American vision," The Tampa Tribune Times (Sunday 29 November 1998): p. 14.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA. Advertisement for O'Keeffe exhibition, Tampa Bay Magazine (November/December 1998): p. 18.
MARGER, MARY ANN. "Brush with Greatness," Floridian (7 December 1998): p. 1D, 5D.
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 II, no. 1040.
VIEVILLE, CAMILLE. Georgia O'Keeffe (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2021), fig. 194 (color), p. 200.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 52, p. 73.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
1941
Accession Number
86.3471
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 × 30 in. (40.6 × 76 cm)
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
School
Early American Modernism
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Record ID
hmsg_86.3471
Metadata Usage (text)
Not determined
GUID (Link to Original Record)
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py22d234423-2f25-44f4-b50a-3e6c2373ca12

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