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Red and Pink Rocks

Artist Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887 - 1986)

Date1938

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 18 x 13 in. (45.7 x 33 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.98

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ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Inscribedverso top center: Red & Pink Rocks / 1938

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (113), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present; Conversations Across the Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 7 - May 14, 2023; An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022; Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and traveling, May 23–September 7, 2008; Georgia O’Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction, Norton Museum of Art and traveling, February 10–May 6, 2007; Specimen: Natural History and American Modernism, 1900–1950, Palmer Museum of Art, June 15–September 12, 2004; Of, For, and By Georgia O’Keeffe, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, February 25–May 4, 1994; Georgia O’Keeffe: 1887–1986, National Gallery of Art and traveling, November 1, 1987–February 21, 1988; Continuity and Diversity in American Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Kennedy Galleries, New York, April 10–May 31, 1984; A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors, Kennedy Galleries, New York, April 14–May 29, 1981; An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, February 1–22, 1953; Mayo Hill Galleries, Delray Beach, Fla., March 16–April 11, 1953; Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels, An American Place, New York, January 22–March 17, 1939ProvenanceThe Downtown Gallery, New York Mayo Hill Galleries, Delray Beach, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Hallstrom, Narbeth, Pa., 1953 Descended in family Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York Robert Carlen, Philadelphia Ruth W. Cooper, Philadelphia, 1971 American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Christie’s, New York, December 5, 1980, sale 5025, lot 199 Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1980 Jean and Alvin Snowiss, Lock Haven, Pa., 1986 Acquired in 1987 from Kennedy Galleries, New YorkPublished References“American Art,” Arts Magazine 56 (September 1981): 27. American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture of the 19th and 20th Centuries, December 5, 1980 (New York: Christie’s, 1980), 149 (ill., color, no. 199). Buhler Lynes, Barbara, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 1:589 (ill., color, no. 944); 2:1129. Buhler Lynes, Barbara, Sandra S. Phillips, and Richard B. Woodward, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (Santa Fe: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2008), 75 (ill., color), 165 (no. 38). Chave, Anna C., and Kathleen Monaghan, Of, For, and By Georgia O’Keeffe (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), 15. Continuity and Diversity in American Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1984), n.p. (ill., color, no. 38), back cover (ill., color). Costantino, Maria Georgia O’Keeffe (New York: Brompton Books, 1994; Smithmark, 1995), 166 (ill., color). Cowart, Jack and Juan Hamilton, Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1987), n.p. (ill., color, no. 94). Deák, Gloria-Gilda, Kennedy Galleries’ Profiles of American Artists (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1984), 175, 269 (ill., no. 76). Eldredge, Charles C., “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Development of an American Modern” (Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1971), 125 (ill., no. 83). An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1953), n.p. (ill., no. 20). Georgia O’Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels (brochure) (New York: An American Place, 1939), n.p., no. 15. A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1981) Robinson, Roxana, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life (New York: Harper and Row, 1989), 458 Stuhlman, Jonathan and Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction (West Palm Beach: Norton Museum of Art, 2007), n.p. (ill., color, pl. 28), 133 (no. 28)