PROVENANCE
An American Place, New York
Downtown Gallery, New York
Katrina McCormick Barnes, Denver
Medill McCormick Barnes (acquired by descent in 1971)
Washburn Gallery, New York
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Daniel Dietrich, Philadelphia (until 1985)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe
Private Collection, Santa Fe (2000)
The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek, New York (2011-15)
Gifted from the above to the present owner

EXHIBITION HISTORY
‘Georgia O’Keeffe’, An American Place, New York, 4 February – 27 March 1946, no.10
‘Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 13 November 1948 – 2 January 1949
‘An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe’, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Mayo Hill Galleries, Delray Beach, 1 February – 11 April 1953 (inclusive)
‘Important Recent Acquisitions: Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Paintings’, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2–23 February 1972
‘Mind over Matter: Painters of the Immanent Things’, Washburn Gallery, New York, 20 September – 21 October 1972
‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Selected Paintings and Works on Paper’, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York; Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, 26 April – 14 July 1986 (inclusive)
‘Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land’, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 28 September 2012 – 8 September 2013 (inclusive)
‘From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection’, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 8 February 2015 – 10 January 2016 (inclusive)
‘Extended loan’, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, January – April 2016
‘Georgia O’Keeffe’, Tate Modern, London; Bank Austria Kunstform, Vienna; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 6 July 2016 – 30 July 2017
‘The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha’, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 28 April – 20 August 2018
‘Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection of American Art’, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 13 September 2018 – 6 January 2019
‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style’, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 30 March 2019 – 9 February 2020
‘Georgia O’Keeffe’, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 8 September 2021 – 22 May 2023
‘Georgia O’Keeffe: “Things I Had No Words For”’, Newport Art Museum, Newport, 16 July – 16 October 2022
‘O’Keeffe and Moore’, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 13 May 2023 – 9 June 2024

LITERATURE
Robert M. Coates, ‘The Art Galleries – Contemporaries, Including the Whitney’, The New Yorker XXII (16 February 1946), p.84
‘New York Exhibitions – Georgia O’Keeffe’, MKR’s Art Outlook (April 1946), pp.1, 3, illustrated
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1948, no.105
An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, exh. cat., Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, 1953, no.22
Important Recent Acquisitions: Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Paintings, exh. cat., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1972, no.52, illustrated
Mind over Matter: Painters of the Immanent Things, exh. cat., Washburn Gallery, New York, 1972, no.7, p.3, illustrated
Hilton Kramer, ‘Artists ‘Looking West’: New Shows at A.C.A. Galleries Present Wide Range of Styles and Mediums’, The New York Times (23 September 1972), p.L27
James R Mellow, ‘Landscapes: The Real and the Imaginary – in American Art’, The New York Times (8 October 1972), p.D27
John Perreault, ‘Does anyone want all that art?’, The Village Voice (5 October 1972), p.29
Sanford Schwartz, ‘New York Letter’, Art International XVI (December 1972), p.61
Georgia O’Keeffe: Selected Paintings and Works on Paper, exh. cat., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1986, no.28, illustrated (and on front cover)
Sharyn Udall, Contested Terrain: Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1996, pl.8, pp.xi, 120-34, 174, illustrated (and on front cover)
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Volume Two, Yale University Press, New Haven; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, 1999, Appendix II: Additional Works, no.119, p.1107, illustrated
Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land, exh. cat., Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2012, pl.49, p.140, illustrated
Dan Bischoff, ‘Artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s Sense of Place’, Star-Ledger (30 September 2012)
Martha Schwendener, ‘The Spirit of Cultural Objects’, The New York Times (4 January 2013), p.NJ11
Ray Mark Rinaldi, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’s inspired Western art comes to Denver Art Museum’, Denver Post (15 February 2013)
William C. Agee and Lewis Kachur, Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection, exh. cat., Merrell, London, 2013, pp.11, 160-161, 235, 240, 267, illustrated
Georgia O’Keeffe, exh. cat., Tate, London, 2016, p.178, 255, illustrated
Georgia O’Keeffe, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2021, p.269
O’Keeffe and Moore, exh. cat., The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, 2023, p.142, illustrated