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Georgia O'Keeffe

Sky with Flat White Cloud, 1962

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 152.4 x 203.2 cm (60 x 80 in.)

framed: 153 x 203.8 x 3 cm (60 1/4 x 80 1/4 x 1 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe

Accession Number

1987.58.8

Artists / Makers

Georgia O'Keeffe (painter) American, 1887 - 1986

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Inscription

center right reverse: Sky With Flat White Cloud / 1961?

Provenance

The artist [1887-1986]; her estate; bequest 1987 to NGA.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

1970: Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 116.

1993: Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern, The Hayward Gallery, London; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, 1993-1994, no. 85.

1997: Birth of the Cool. American Painting - from Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Kunsthaus Zürich, 1997, unnumbered catalogue, pl. 2.

1998: American Light: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, May-August 1998, no catalogue.

1998: Shifting Visions: O'Keeffe, Guston, Richter, Des Moines Art Center, 1998-1999, no. 33, repro.

1998: Treasures of Light: Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, March-April 1998, no catalogue.

2000: [O'Keeffe exhibition], Bakersfield Museum of Art, California, 2000.

2001: O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 2001-2002, no. 72, repro.

2007: Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007-2008, no. 72, repro.

2011: Georgia O'Keeffe, Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, 2011-2012, no. 65, repro. (Italian catalogue), no. 171, repro. (German and Finnish catalogues).

2013: Letzte Bilder: Von Manet bis Kippenberger [Final Works. From Manet to Kippenberger], Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2013, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2015: Collection Conversations: The Chrysler and the National Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 2015-2016, no catalogue.

2016: Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2016-2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1970: Goodrich, Lloyd, and Doris Bry. Georgia O'Keeffe. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art. New York, 1970: 28.

1971: Eldredge, Charles C. "Georgia O'Keeffe: the development of an American modern." Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1971: 108-110, fig. 72.

1984: Hoffman, Katherine. An Enduring Spirit: The Art of Georgia O’Keeffe. Metuchen, NJ, 1984: 118.

1991: Eldredge, Charles C. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1991: 147, 150, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 252, repro.

1993: Eldredge, Charles C. Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern Exh. cat. Hayward Gallery, London; El Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City; and Yokohama Museum of Art, 1993-1994. New Haven and London, 1993: 209, color pl. 85.

1999: Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1999: 2:902-903, no. 1473, color repro.

2004: Joseph S. Czestochowski, ed., Georgia O’Keeffe: Vision of the Sublime. Memphis, 2004: pl. 77

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