Beauford Delaney

Prints and Drawings

1943

Georgia O’Keeffe
American, 1887–1986

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Beauford Delaney
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1943
Medium: Charcoal on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Sight: 62.1 × 47 cm (24 1/2 × 18 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Fund
Reference Number: 2018.546

Doris Bry (ed.), Georgia O’Keeffe: Some Memories of Drawings (Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1988), n.p., no. 15.
B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn., 1999), 2:654, no. 1042 (ill.).
H. Drohojowska-Philip, Full Bloom: the Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe (New York, 2005), pp. 401, 436.
D. Ngo (ed.), Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection + Residence (San Francisco, Cal., 2006), n.p. (ill.).
Barney Ebsworth, A World of Possibility: An Autobiography (Hunts Point, Wa., 2012), pp. 146–47).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Georgia O’Keeffe, Oct. 8, 1970–Apr. 30, 1971, cat. 87.
St. Louis Art Museum; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism 1911–1947, Nov. 20, 1987–June 5, 1988, pp. 144–45, 213, cat. 50 (ill.).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Seattle Art Museum, Twentieth-Century American Art: The Ebsworth Collection, Mar. 5-Nov. 12, 2000, pp. 199–201, 293, cat. 51 (ill.).

Sold by the artist through Doris Bry (1920–2014), New York, to Barney A. Ebsworth (1934–2018), 1976; sold, Christie’s, New York, Nov. 13, 2018, lot 2B, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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