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Jawbone and Fungus (recto); Untitled (Abstraction) (verso)
193117 x 20 in. (43.2 x 50.8 cm)
Georgia O'Keeffe
United States (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:
1951.11a-b
Collection:
Encyclopedia Britannica Collection
With her unique vision and expression, Georgia O’Keeffe epitomizes the modern American artist. Her simple, pared down shapes and closely cropped still-lifes of bones and flowers turn objects into landscapes of their own.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Painting on the verso, an untitled abstraction, dates to ca. 1923
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Painting on the verso, an untitled abstraction, dates to ca. 1923
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:
- Georgia O'Keeffe An American Place 1/3/1932 - 2/6/1932
- Contemporary American Painting Encyclopaedia Britannica 4/12/1945 - 7/30/1950
- New Accessions of American Painting from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection 1/19/1951 - 2/28/1951
- Summer Exhibit of Permanent Collection 6/1/1959 - 8/31/1959
- Centennial Exhibition: American Painting Since the Armory Show 10/1/1961 - 10/31/1961
- Selections from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Albany Institute of History & Art 11/15/1964 - 12/20/1964
- Pioneers of American Abstraction Andrew Crispo Gallery 10/17/1973 - 11/17/1973
- Twentieth Century American Painting New York State Council on the Arts 9/1/1974 - 1/1/1975
- The Era of Abstraction Memorial Art Gallery 1/19/1977 - 2/16/1977
- Combinations: Lines of Time Memorial Art Gallery 1/13/1979 - 3/4/1979
- An American Place The Parrish Art Museum 5/24/1981 - 7/19/1981
- Nevelson and O'Keeffe: Independents of the Twentieth Century Nassau County Museum of Art 1/30/1983 - 4/10/1983
- Order and Enigma: American Art Between the Two Wars Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 10/13/1984 - 3/2/1986
- In Medusa's Gaze: Still Life Paintings from Upstate New York Museums Memorial Art Gallery 12/7/1991 - 5/2/1993
- The Informing Spirit: Art of West Coast Canada and the American Southwest McMichael Canadian Art Collection 1/26/1995 - 3/26/1995
- Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation 2/4/2006 - 12/31/2006
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
- Article Title: New Accessions of American Paintings. Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 16, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: January-February, 1951.
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Helene Winer. Executive Mansion, Albany, New York: Art Exhibitions, Museums of New York State. Albany, NY, 1974.
- Art Digest. New York, New York: Art Digest, Inc.
- Article Title: Georgia O'Keeffe. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Grace Pagano and Donald Bear. The Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting. Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1946. Page Number: opp. illus., Figure Number: 89
- Article Title: Exhibitions in New York: Georgia O'Keeffe, An American Place. Article Scope: Article. ARTnews. New York, New York: ARTnews Associates Volume Number: XXX, Issue Number: 14. Issue Date: January 2, 1932. Page Number: 9
- Docent Newsletter. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Article Author: Libby, Gary Russell. Article Title: Georgia O'Keeffe. Article Scope: Article. Southwest Art: . Houston, TX: Art Magazine Publishers, Inc. Volume Number: 10, Issue Number: 11. Issue Date: April 1981. Page Number: 109
- Article Scope: Entry. Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalog Raisonné. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. Volume Number: 1
- Vincent Price. The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art. Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1972.
- Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Sarah Clark-Langager. Order and Enigma: American Art Between the Two Wars. Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1984.
- Article Scope: Entry. Ronald G. Pisano. An American Place. Southampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum, 1981.
- Georgia O'Keeffe: A Book of Postcards. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1992.
- Article Scope: Entry. Constance Schwartz. Nevelson and O'Keeffe: Independents of the Twentieth Century. Roslyn, NY: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1983.
- Richard Leppert. Art and the Committed Eye. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
- Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986). Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate Calendars & Books, 1993.
- Elizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 1993.
- Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Jan Garden Castro. The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1985.
- Pioneers of American Abstraction. New York, NY: Andrew Crispo Gallery, 1973.
- Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
- MAGazine. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
- Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. In Medusa's Gaze: Still Life Paintings from Upstate New York Museums. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1991.
- Cynthia Burlingham, ed. The Eunice and Hal David Collection of 19th & 20th Century works on Paper. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Hammer Museum, 2003.
- Sarah Whitaker Peters. Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation. Philadelphia, PA: Penn State University Press
- René Paul Barilleaux and Sarah Whitaker Peters. Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation. Jackson, MS: Mississippi Museum of Art, 2006.
- Northern Woodlands. Center for Woodlands Education, Inc.
- Article Author: Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Article Title: Georgia O’Keeffe: Jawbone and Fungus. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. 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. Page Number: 218-220
- Article Scope: Mention. Sarah Greenough, ed. My Faraway One: Selected letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press Volume Number: 1
- Women Artists at the Memorial Art Gallery. Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony Center, University of Rochester, 2017.
- Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Camille Vieville. O'Keeffe. Paris, France: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2021.
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