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Title:Grey Tree, Lake George
Artist:Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Date:1925
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:36 × 30 in. (91.4 × 76.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1986
Object Number:1987.377.2
Inscription: Initialed (verso, in center of five-pointed star, in graphite): OK
the artist (1925–d. 1986; her bequest as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to MMA)
Intimate Gallery, New York. "Fifty Recent Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe," February 11–March 11, 1926 (possibly extended to April 3, 1926), no catalogue.
Brooklyn Museum. "International Exhibition of Modern Art, Assembled by the Société Anonyme," November 19, 1926–January 1, 1927, no. 268 (as "The Maple Tree").
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Paintings by Nineteen Living Americans," December 13, 1929–January 12, 1930, no. 73.
New York. Demotte, Inc. "Twenty Modern American Pictures Selected by Samuel M. Kootz," March 16–April 11, 1931, no. 14 (as "The Maple").
Art Institute of Chicago. "Georgia O'Keeffe," January 21–February 22, 1943, no. 16.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition," May 14–August 25, 1946, no catalogue (checklist no. 13).
Fort Worth. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. "Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966," March 17–May 8, 1966, unnumbered cat. (p. 28; dated 1926).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966," May 28–July 3, 1966, unnumbered cat.
Albuquerque. University of New Mexico Art Museum. "Georgia O'Keeffe," September 8–October 13, 1966, no catalogue.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Georgia O'Keeffe," October 8–November 29, 1970, no. 38.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Georgia O'Keeffe," January 6–February 7, 1971, no. 38.
San Francisco Museum of Art. "Georgia O'Keeffe," March 15–April 30, 1971, no. 38.
Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College. "An Exhibition of Paintings: Georgia O'Keeffe, on the Occasion of the M. Carey Thomas Awards," October 21–November 2, 1971, no. 4.
Santa Fe. Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico. "Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings," December 19, 1986–April 12, 1987, unnumbered cat. (lent by the Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887–1986," November 19, 1988–February 5, 1989, not in catalogue (unnumbered checklist addenda).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887–1986," March 30–June 18, 1989, not in catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.
New York. Forum Gallery. "Nineteen Americans: A Tribute to Alfred H. Barr, Jr.," February 7–March 10, 1990, no. 36.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "14 Americans," July 16, 1990–January 2, 1991, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Painting: 1905–1950," April 19–October 7, 1991, no catalogue.
Madrid. Fundación Juan March. "Georgia O'Keeffe: Naturalezas íntimas," February 8–June 2, 2002, no. 11 (as "Arbol gris, Lake George").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 182.
Glen Falls, N. Y. The Hyde Collection. "Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George," June 15–September 15, 2013, no. 42.
Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien. "Georgia O'Keeffe," December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017, unnumbered cat.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. "Georgia O'Keeffe," April 22–July 30, 2017, unnumbered cat.
Blanche C. Matthias. "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Intimate Gallery: Stieglitz Showing Seven Americans." Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World (March 2, 1926), p. 1, as "Maple Tree—November".
Katherine S. Dreier and Constantin Aladjalov, ed. "Georgia O'Keeffe." Modern Art. New York, 1926, ill.
Samuel M. Kootz. Modern American Painters. New York, 1930, p. 43, ill., as "The Maple," collection Alfred Stieglitz.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 19, 33, 35, 37–38, fig. 24.
Lisa M. Messinger inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 27, fig. 3.
Maria Costantino. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1994, p. 68, ill.
Katherine Hoffman. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Celebration of Music and Dance. New York, 1997, pp. 54, 108–9, 119, pl. 34.
Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 1, p. 288, no. 512, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2001, pp. 64–65, fig. 39.
Barbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman. O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. New York, 2001, pp. 165 (app. 1), 167 (app. 1), 170 (app. 3), 173 (app. 4).
Lisa Mintz Messinger inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 14, 198, 279, no. 182, ill. (color).
Isabelle Duvernois inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, p. 193.
Bruce Robertson inModern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George. Ed. Erin B. Coe. Exh. cat., The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, N. Y. New York, 2013, pp. 84–85, 197, no. 42, ill. p. 161 (color).
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
1917
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