Georgia O'Keeffe
1931
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 24 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 56.5 x 43.8 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.262
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 27D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1432
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz—A Conversation in Painting and Photographs, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, December 2, 1992–April 4, 1993; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, April 27–June 26, 1993; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–September 12, 1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2–December 5, 1993
Bibliography
1992
Arrowsmith, Alexandra, Thomas West, and Belinda Rathbone. Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington and New York, 1992: 140.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1432.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 27D
Wikidata ID
Q64037450
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
In this photograph and Key Set number 1433 O’Keeffe is photographed with a cow’s skull, which is depicted in her paintings Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, 1931, Cow’s Skull, Red, White and Blue, 1931, and Cow’s Skull on Red, 1931/1936 (Lynes 772, 773, and 799).