The Metropolitan Museum of Art - East River from the Shelton Hotel

East River from the Shelton Hotel

Date:: 1928
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 x 32 in. (30.5 x 81.3 cm)
Classification:: Paintings
Credit Line:: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1986
Accession Number:: 1987.377.3

This artwork is not on display

Description

This aerial view of New York City's East River shows midtown Manhattan in the foreground and Long Island City (Queens) in the background, as seen from the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, where O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz lived between 1925 and 1936.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Initialed (on verso, in center of five-pointed star, in graphite): OK
Exhibition History

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, May 4 - August 19, 2001. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, September 14, 2001 - January 13, 2002. ¦O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection¦
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