Green Mountains, Canada

Arts of the Americas

1932

Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)

In this panoramic landscape, Georgia O’Keeffe captured the massive Gaspé Peninsula mountains in Quebec, Canada, as they rise sharply from the water’s edge. O’Keeffe traveled to the region in the summer of 1932, accompanied by fellow artist (and husband Alfred Stieglitz’s niece) Georgia Engelhard. The old barns and crosses built by the Peninsula’s French settlers fascinated O’Keeffe, as did the lush green terrain. She painted the mountains and sun-streaked sky with texture and depth, while the water in the foreground moves in flat, zig-zag swaths that accentuate color over representational depth. Although she enjoyed her trip to Canada, and returned again that year, ultimately O’Keeffe preferred the New Mexican landscape, specifically its brilliant sunshine.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Green Mountains, Canada
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
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.: 1932
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30.5 × 91 cm (12 × 36 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
Reference Number: 1956.365
Copyright: © The Art Institute of Chicago

Edwina Spencer, “Around the Galleries,” Creative Art 12 (April 1933), p. 315 ill.
James W. Lane and Leo Katz, The Work of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portfolio of 12 Paintings (New York, 1939), pl. 3.
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1961, p. 346. (corrected in 1971 Supplement to Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago).
Mitchell A. Wilder, ed., Georgia O’Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966, exh. cat. (Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1966), 29.
“Panorama,” Chicago Daily News, Saturday/Sunday, January 9/10, 1971, p. 5 ill.
Barbara Buhler Lynes, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné,” (National Gallery of Art/Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation/Yale University Press, 1999) no. 818 (vol. 1).

New York, An American Place, Georgia O’Keeffe Paintings, New and Some Old, Jan. 7–Feb. 22, 1933 (extended to Mar. 27), no. 11.
Art Institute of Chicago, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jan. 21–Feb. 22, 1943, cat. 48 (ill. p. 33).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American: Alfred Stieglitz, 291 and After, July 1–Nov. 1, 1944, p. 35.
Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Georgia O’Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966, Mar. 17–May 8, 1966, cat.; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 26–July 3, 1966.
Canada, Ottawa, Art in Embassies Program, Jan. 13, 2010–Oct. 31, 2012.

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), New York and New Mexico, then Abiquiú, NM, from 1949 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1949; letter from O’Keeffe to Daniel Catton Rich, Mar. 15, 1957; copy in curatorial object file]; given through the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1956.

Lynes 1999 818

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