Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
23-7/8 x 29-3/4 in. (canvas) 25 x 31-1/16 x 1-5/8 in. (framed/Optium)
Mark Description
Not Inscribed
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Anne Marmon Greenleaf in memory of Caroline Marmon Fesler
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Artist; purchased by Caroline Marmon Fesler, Indianapolis, Indiana; by descent to Anne Marmon Greenleaf, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1960; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1977.
Gallery Labels
- The radical manipulation of perspective and scale, and the strong but elegant contours of the bone in this work exemplify O'Keeffe's genius for capturing the essential forms of nature.
- From 1943 until 1947, O’Keeffe painted a series of works in which sun-bleached pelvic bones are prominently situated within the natural environment of the Southwest.
- A distinctly American artist, O’Keeffe never trained in Europe. She found her inspiration in the skyscrapers of New York City, and after 1929, in the bones, landscapes, and flowers of New Mexico.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens
Fondation Beyeler
January 23, 2022 - May 22, 2022
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens
Centre Georges Pompidou
September 8, 2021 - December 6, 2021
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
April 20, 2021 - August 8, 2021
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still-Life
Tacoma Art Museum
March 1, 2015 - June 7, 2015
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still-Life
Tacoma Art Museum
March 1, 2015 - June 7, 2015
Indianapolis Museum of Art
November 2, 2014 - February 15, 2015
Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction
Vancouver Art Gallery
October 6, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction
Irish Museum of Modern Art
March 6, 2007 - May 13, 2007
Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
January 27, 2005 - April 3, 2005
Georgia O'Keeffe, From the Plains
Kunsthaus Zürich
October 24, 2003 - February 1, 2004
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
Dallas Museum of Art
November 7, 1999 - January 30, 2000
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
August 7, 1999 - October 17, 1999
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things
The Phillips Collection
April 17, 1999 - July 18, 1999
Indianapolis Museum of Art
October 21, 1980 - November 30, 1980
The American Scene: The 20th Century
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
April 6, 1970 - May 17, 1970
200 Years of American Painting
Saint Louis Art Museum
April 1, 1964 - May 31, 1964
Georgia O'Keeffe
The Museum of Modern Art
May 14, 1946 - August 25, 1946
Georgia O'Keeffe
An American Place
January 11, 1944 - March 11, 1944
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