Lot Essay
O'Keeffe traveled to San Antonio, Texas in February 1918 where she executed 18 watercolors, including the present example.
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PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION OF KATE AND ALLAN EMIL
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Tree and Earth
Details
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
Tree and Earth
watercolor on paper
12 x 8 ¾ in. (30.5 x 22 cm.)
Painted in San Antonio in February 1918
Tree and Earth
watercolor on paper
12 x 8 ¾ in. (30.5 x 22 cm.)
Painted in San Antonio in February 1918
Provenance
The Downtown Gallery, New York.
Kate and Allan Emil, New York (acquired from the above, 1959).
By descent from the above to the late owner, 1975.
Kate and Allan Emil, New York (acquired from the above, 1959).
By descent from the above to the late owner, 1975.
Literature
B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1999, vol. I, p. 135, no. 250 (illustrated).
N.H. Reily, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Private Friendship, Part I, Walking the Sun Prairie Land, Santa Fe, 2007, p. 270.
N.H. Reily, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Private Friendship, Part I, Walking the Sun Prairie Land, Santa Fe, 2007, p. 270.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pioneers of Modern Art in America, April-May 1946, no. 110.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916-1917, February-March, 1958, no. 28.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916-1917, February-March, 1958, no. 28.
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