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Waterfall, No. 2, Īao Valley by Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

Waterfall, No. 2, Īao Valley, 1939

Oil on canvas
61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (18 May 2022)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 18, 2022
Sotheby'sNew YorkModern Day Auction307
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Waterfall, No. 2, Īao Valley
May 21, 2019
Sotheby'sNew YorkAmerican Art10
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Waterfall, No. 2, Īao Valley
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Provenance

The Downtown Gallery, New York

Mrs. Iselin O'Donnell, New York (acquired from the above in 1947)

Sotheby's New York, 13 December 1972, lot 142 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 21 May 2019, lot 10 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Oils and Pastels , 1940, no. 17 (as Water Fall-No. II-Iao Valley )

Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings of Hawaii , 1990, no. 18, pp. 56, 76, illustrated

Bronx, New York Botanical Garden; Memphis, Brooks Museum of Art, Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i , 2018-19, no. 16, pp. 122, 123, illustrated

Literature

"Advertising Art Lures Brush of Miss O'Keeffe," New York Herald Tribune , January 21, 1940, p. 10

"One-Man Shows," The New York Times , February 11, 1940, sec. 9, p. 7

Royal Cortissoz, "Three Ladies," New York Herald Tribune , February 11, 1940, sec. 9, p. 9

"Pineapple for Papaya," The Art Digest , vol. 14, no. 10, February 15, 1940, p. 23

Elizabeth McClausland, "Exhibitions in New York," Parnassus , vol. 12, no. 3, March 1940, p. 42

Ronn Ronck, "How Georgia O'Keeffe Conquered Pineapples," The Honolulu Advertiser , October 22, 1981, p. D3

Lisa Mintz Messinger, "Georgia O'Keeffe," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin , vol. 42, no. 2, Fall 1984, p. 56, fig. 53, p. 54, illustrated

Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe , Albuquerque, 1986, p. 244

Anita Pollitzer, A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe , New York, 1988, p. 229

Lisa Mintz Messinger, Georgia O'Keeffe , New York, 1988, pp. 83, 86, fig. 62, illustrated

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné , vol. II, New Haven, 1999, no. 980, p. 619, illustrated

Description

Georgia O'Keeffe

1887 - 1986

Waterfall, No. 2, Īao Valley

oil on canvas

24 by 20 in.

61 by 50.8 cm.

Executed in 1939.