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"tombstone": "It Was Yellow and Pink II, 1959. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887\u20131986). Oil on canvas; unframed: 91.5 x 76.2 cm (36 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.137. \u00a9 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "It Was Yellow and Pink II",
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"inscription": "Stretcher: \"Fall 58\" (cardboard stretcher brace, graphite)\r\nBacking: \"It Was Yellow and Pink II / 1960 [crossed out] 1959 (crossing out and '1959 by DB, OKR, black ink) / Oil / 36 x 30 / canvas\" (OKR, black ink)",
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"title": "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Sublime Landscape",
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"title": "Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition",
"description": "Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition. Mus\u00e9e de Grenoble, Grenoble, France (organizer) (November 7, 2015-February 7, 2016).",
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"id": 375940,
"title": "Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens",
"description": "Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (April 20-August 8, 2021); Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris cedex O4, France (September 8-December 6, 2021); Fondation Beyeler, CH-4125 Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (January 23-May 22, 2022).",
"opening_date": "2021-04-20T04:00:00"
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"id": 449502,
"title": "Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time",
"description": "Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 9-August 12, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2023-04-09T04:00:00"
},
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"id": 522591,
"title": "Art Bridges Loan Partnership",
"description": "Art Bridges Loan Partnership. Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT (August 16, 2024-September 21, 2025); San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (October 4, 2025-October 4, 2026) https://www.samuseum.org/artwork/exhibition/canvas-to-clay-georgia-okeeffe-maria-martinez-to-mata-ortiz-and-tonala/.",
"opening_date": "2024-08-16T04:00:00"
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"description": "Georgia O'Keeffe. The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (April 11-May 6, 1961).",
"opening_date": "1961-04-11T00:00:00"
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"description": "One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture. The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (January 12-February 25, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1962-01-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "Georgia O'Keeffe: American Modern. The Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom (organizer) (April 8-June 27, 1993); Palacio de Belles Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (August 1-October 24,1993); Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (November 28-February 20, 1994).",
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"did_you_know": "Recalling her views out of airplane windows, O\u2019Keeffe described seeing \u201csuch incredible colors that you actually begin to believe in your dreams.\u201d",
"description": "Georgia O\u2019Keeffe was electrified by the aerial views she experienced when flying long distances in the lower-altitude propeller planes of the 1950s and 1960s. In this painting, she has composed riverbeds seen far below in ways that refer to an actual experience and, simultaneously, exist as an abstract design.",
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"citation": "Muse\u0301e de Grenoble, Sophie Bernard, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe et ses amis photographes: [... publie\u0301 a\u0300 l'occasion de l'exposition \"Georgia O'Keeffe et ses amis photographes\", Muse\u0301e de Grenoble, 7 novembre 2015 - 7 fe\u0301vrier 2016]. Paris: Somogy e\u0301d. d'art, 2015. catalogue number 67.",
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"citation": "Ruiz del Arbol, Marta. Georgia O'Keeffe, exh. cat. Madrid: Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2021.",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 301; Reproduced pp. 227, 313.",
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},
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"citation": "The Downtown Gallery. Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings and Drawings, April 11-May 6, 1961. New York, 1961.",
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"citation": "Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Catalogue of the One Hundred and Fifty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture : January 12 through February 25, 1962. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania of the Fine Arts. 1962.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 27",
"url": null
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"citation": "\"Art Museum Gets O'Keeffe Paintings.\" The Cleveland Plain Dealer (22 April 1986).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 5C",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Culllinan, Helen. \"Georgia On Our Minds: O'Keeffe Legacy: 5 Glowing New Oils at Museum.\" The Cleveland Plain Dealer (5 September 1987).",
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"url": null
},
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"citation": "Chong, Alan, comp. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 171",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Eldredge, Charles C. Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 86",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen. O'Keeffe and Texas. San Antonio: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 94, 116; Reproduced: p. 96",
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"citation": "Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, and Marjorie P. Balge-Crozier. Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things. Washington, D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 1999.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 132",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 847",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Curiger, Bice, Carter Ratcliff, and Peter Johannes Schneemann. Georgia O'Keeffe. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2003.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 91",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Czestochowski, Joseph S., ed. Georgia O'Keeffe Visions of the Sublime. Memphis: Torch Press and International Arts, 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 157",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Tosatto, Guy, Sophie Bernard, Camille Ducastel, and Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe et ses amis photographes. 2015.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 149; Reproduced: p. 161",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Ottinger, Didier. Georgia O'Keeffe. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2021.",
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},
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"citation": "O'Keeffe, Georgia, Theodora Vischer, Sam Keller, Cody Hartley, Didier Ottinger, Marta Ruiz del A\u0301rbol, Ariel Plotek, and Anna Hiddleston-Galloni. Georgia O'Keeffe. 2022.",
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"url": ""
},
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"citation": "O'Keeffe, Georgia, Samantha Friedman, Emily Olek, Glenn D. Lowry, and Laura Neufeld. Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time. New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2023.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 162, pl. 125",
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