id: 153604 accession number: 1987.137 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.137 updated: 2020-11-04 21:28:18.651000 It Was Yellow and Pink II, 1959. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986). 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 © The Cleveland Museum of Art (see file for special conditions) title: It Was Yellow and Pink II title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1959 creation date earliest: 1959 creation date latest: 1959 current location: creditline: Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe copyright: © The Cleveland Museum of Art (see file for special conditions) --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 91.5 x 76.2 cm (36 x 30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Stretcher: "Fall 58" (cardboard stretcher brace, graphite) Backing: "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) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift opening date: 1987-09-04T04:00:00 The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 4-December 15, 1987). title: O'Keeffe and Texas opening date: 1998-01-27T00:00:00 O'Keeffe and Texas. Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (January 27-April 5, 1998). title: Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things opening date: 1999-04-24T00:00:00 Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things. The Phillips Collection (organizer) (April 24-July 18, 1999); Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (August 14-October 10, 1999); The Dallas Museum of Art (October 30, 1999-January 30, 2000); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor (February 19-May 14, 2000). title: Georgia O'Keeffe opening date: 2003-10-23T00:00:00 Georgia O'Keeffe. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (organizer) (October 23, 2003-February 1, 2004). title: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Sublime Landscape opening date: 2004-07-10T00:00:00 Georgia O'Keeffe and the Sublime Landscape. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (July 10-October 3, 2004); Fresno Metropolitan Museum, CA (October 20, 2004-January 3, 2005). title: Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition opening date: 2015-11-07T00:00:00 Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition. Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France (organizer) (November 7, 2015-February 7, 2016). title: Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens opening date: 2021-04-20T04:00:00 Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (April 20-August 1, 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Georgia O'Keeffe. The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY (organizer) (April 11-May 6, 1961). * 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). * 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). * Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (July 10-October 3, 2004); Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA (October 20, 2004-January 3, 2005); Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN (January 17-April 3, 2005); Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (April 15-June 12, 2005); Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID ( June 30-September 12, 2005). --- PROVENANCE Estate of the artist, 1986 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This aerial view of a river and its tributaries was inspired by O'Keeffe's airplane travels. digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Downtown Gallery. Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings and Drawings, April 11-May 6, 1961. New York, 1961. page number: url: 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: "Art Museum Gets O'Keeffe Paintings." The Cleveland Plain Dealer (22 April 1986). page number: Mentioned: p. 5C url: Culllinan, Helen. "Georgia On Our Minds: O'Keeffe Legacy: 5 Glowing New Oils at Museum." The Cleveland Plain Dealer (5 September 1987). page number: Mentioned url: 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: Eldredge, Charles C. Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. page number: Reproduced: fig. 86 url: Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen. O'Keeffe and Texas. San Antonio: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 94, 116; Reproduced: p. 96 url: 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: Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 847 url: Curiger, Bice, Carter Ratcliff, and Peter Johannes Schneemann. Georgia O'Keeffe. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2003. page number: Reproduced: p. 91 url: Czestochowski, Joseph S., ed. Georgia O'Keeffe Visions of the Sublime. Memphis: Torch Press and International Arts, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 157 url: 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: --- IMAGES