A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills

1946

Georgia O'Keeffe

Associated Names
Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist, American, 1887 - 1986

At the top of this painting is a smooth, dark shape resembling a bird in flight. The bird is made of long, curved lines, with its wings extended to either side and its head pointing to the left. The background of the painting is a blue gradient, transitioning from a medium blue at the top to a very light, almost-white shade of blue in the middle of the painting. The very bottom of the painting is completely white and forms a U-shaped valley below the bird.
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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G6

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    overall: 91.44 × 121.92 cm (36 × 48 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.58.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Doris Bry [1920-2014], New York).[1] Susan and David Workman, New York.[2] (Kraushaar Galleries, New York). (Kennedy Galleries, New York, by 1977); private collection; gift 2021 to NGA.
[1] The provenance is adapted from Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols., New Haven and London, 1999: 2: 715, no. 1148.
[2]A label from the back of the painting names the couple as lenders to the 1970 retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Georgia O'Keeffee: Paintings 1946-1950 An American Place, New York.

1960

  • Georgia O'Keeffe: Forty Years of her Art, Worcester Art Museum.

1970

  • Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 99.

1987

  • Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987-1989, no. 107.

Bibliography

2022

  • Cooper, Harry. "Gifts & Acquisitions." Art for the Nation no. 65 (Spring 2022): 20-21, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q111603596

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