Georgia O'Keeffe, 1931

Key Set Entry

• prev
• 1432 of 1642 from the Alfred Stieglitz Key Set
• next

Related Key Set Photographs

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).

Inscription

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 27D

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

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.

Related Content