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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
On the Old Santa Fe Road
oil on canvas
16 x 30 in. (40.6 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1930-1931
Provenance
Doris Bry, New York.
Private collection, New York (1970).
Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas (acquired from the above).
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico (gift from the above, 1999); sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 20 November 2014, lot 24.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
D. Bry and N. Callaway, eds., Georgia O'Keeffe In the West, New York, 1989 (illustrated in color, pl. 17).
B.B. Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1999, vol. I, p. 457, no. 751 (illustrated in color).
B.B. Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections, New York, 2007, p. 227 (illustrated in color, pl. 202).
Exhibited
(probably) New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe 33 New Paintings (New Mexico), December 1931-January 1932.
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Gallery, Five Painters, January-February 1937, no. 44.
Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Acquisitions and Promised Gifts Since 1997 and Selections from the Permanent Collection, An Exhibition in Honor of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum's 5th Anniversary, June-September 2002.
Fondazione Roma Museo Palazzo Cipolla; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Helsinki Art Museum, Georgia O'Keeffe October 2011-September 2012, pp. 91 and 160, no. 37 (illustrated in color).
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