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Untitled (Abstraction)
ca. 192317 x 20 in. (43.2 x 50.8 cm)
Georgia O'Keeffe
American (Sun Prairie, WI, 1887 - 1986, Santa Fe, NM)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1951.11b
Location: Currently on view
Collection:
Encyclopedia Britannica Collection
Although O’Keeffe left this abstract composition unfinished in 1923, she picked up this canvas again in 1931 to paint "Jawbone and Fungus," (51.11a) on the other side of this canvas.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Provenance
(An American Place, New York, NY); (The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); purchased by the Encyclopedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting, Chicago, IL; purchased by Senator William Benton, CT, 1948; purchased by the Gallery in 1951
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- New Accessions of American Painting from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection 1/19/1951 - 2/28/1951
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Catalogue Raisonné Entry. Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalog Raisonné. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Volume Number: 1
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006.
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Jawbone and Fungus
1951.11a
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