The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black Place II

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 910

Description

"The Black Place" was the name O'Keeffe gave to one of her favorite painting sites in New Mexico. It was a stretch of desolate hills that she said looked, from a distance, like "a mile of elephants." Over a period of fourteen years (1936–49), this place inspired a torrent of work in paint, pastel, and pencil. Most often, she featured the jagged juncture of two hills, as in this fairly abstract interpretation of the scene.
Exhibition History

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, January 28, 2001 - April 22, 2001. ¦Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America¦. plate 179, p.471, illus.
in color.

O'Keeffe and Abstraction, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, September 17, 2009- January 17, 2010.
References

Greenough, Sarah, et. al. Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. National Gallery of Art, 2000. Cat. no. 179, p. 471 (ill. in color).

Elizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Barnes and Noble, Inc., 1993. Pg. 71, illus.
See also
Who
Georgia O'Keeffe (30)
What
Paintings (12,465)

Canvas (4,596)

Oil paintings (2,913)
Where
North and Central America (83,069)

United States (79,768)
When
A.D. 1900-present (79,803)
In the Museum
Modern and Contemporary Art (12,749)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and His Circle

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986)

The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present
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