Spring

1923–24

Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)

In Spring, Georgia O’Keeffe painted the small building that housed her husband Alfred Stieglitz’s darkroom in Lake George, New York. The couple often treated the same subjects in their art, and Stieglitz photographed this building the same year, choosing a snowy day. Here, O’Keeffe selected a springtime view, employing lush pastel colors for the abundant flowering trees. She also made changes that emphasize her artistic choices as a painter: she simplified the architecture by omitting the house’s chimney, window, and horizontal siding; and she enlarged and curved the flagpole, accentuating the picture’s vertical format.

Status: On View, Gallery 265
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Spring
Place: Lake George (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1923–1924
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 45.7 × 35.4 cm (18 × 14 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum
Reference Number: 2002.72
Copyright: © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Alexandra Arrowsmith and Thomas West, eds., Georgia O’Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs exh. cat. (New York: HarperCollins/Callaway Editions. in association with the Phillips Collection, 1992).
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), no. 446.

New York, An American Place, Georgia O’Keeffe at “An American Place,” 44 Selected Paintings 1915–1927, Jan. 29–Mar. 17, 1934 (possibly).
Washington, DC, Phillips Collection, Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs, Dec. 12, 1992–Apr. 4, 1993, New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Arts, Apr. 27–June 26, 1993, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–Sept. 12, 1993, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Oct. 2–Dec. 5, 1993.

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico, 1923–24 [O’Keeffe moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949]; sold to Paul (1897–1982) and Gabriella Rosenbaum (born Gabriella Kramer, 1905–2000), Chicago and Palm Springs, FL, 1967; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002.

Lynes 1999 446

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