About this artwork
Georgia O’Keeffe painted this canvas in response to seeing the Washington Monument during a trip to Washington, DC, in October 1976 with her assistant Juan Hamilton. She depicted it as an abstract form, a solid white block that dominates the composition, leaving narrow triangles of blue sky on either side. One can envision the 90-year-old artist craning her neck to take in the monumental shape, drawn to its strict geometries, as she toured the Mall on a brilliant fall day.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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Title
- From a Day with Juan IV
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1977
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
- 121.9 × 91.4 cm (48 × 36 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
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Reference Number
- 1987.250.4
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Copyright
- © The Art Institute of Chicago