id: 153611 accession number: 1987.141 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.141 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:00.630000 Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall, 1943. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986). Oil on canvas; framed: 79.5 x 44 x 5.1 cm (31 5/16 x 17 5/16 x 2 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 40.6 cm (30 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe 1987.141 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1943 creation date earliest: 1943 creation date latest: 1943 current location: creditline: Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe copyright: © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- 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: Framed: 79.5 x 44 x 5.1 cm (31 5/16 x 17 5/16 x 2 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 40.6 cm (30 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Stretcher: "No. 3" (unidentified hand, graphite) Backing: 1. "Cliffs beyond Abiquiu -- New Mexico -- / 1943 / by Georgia O'Keeffe." (AS, AAP3, black ink) 2. "No. 14" Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu -- Dry Waterfall (AAP5) 3. "-- 1943" (AAP5, black ink) 4. "Box 43 on 6" (DB, 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-November 15, 1987). title: The Year in Review for 1987 opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). title: The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art opening date: 1989-01-24T05:00:00 The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989). title: Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern opening date: 1993-08-01T04:00:00 Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (April 8-June 22, 1993); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico (August 1-October 24, 1993); Yokohama Museum of Art (November 28, 1993-February 20, 1994). title: O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection opening date: 2001-05-04T00:00:00 O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (organizer) (May 4-August 19, 2001); Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM (September 14, 2001-January 13, 2002); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humbelbaek, Denmark (February 8-May 20, 2002). title: O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place opening date: 2004-10-05T00:00:00 O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (October 5, 2004-January 16, 2005). title: Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction opening date: 2007-10-06T00:00:00 Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (organizer) (October 6, 2007-January 13, 2008). title: O'Keeffe and Moore opening date: 2023-05-12T04:00:00 O'Keeffe and Moore. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (organizer) (May 12-August 27, 2023) https://www.sdmart.org/exhibition/okeeffe-and-moore/; The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (August 30-December 31, 2023); Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (February 5-June 9, 2024); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (October 12, 2024-January 20, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Paintings. The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (October 19-December 21, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-10-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': "An Exhibition by Georgia O'Keeffe. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (October 4-December 4, 1960).", 'opening_date': '1960-10-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards. American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (1963).', 'opening_date': '1963-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1916 to 1966. Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth (March 17-May 8, 1966); Houston Museum of Art, Houston (May 17-June 19, 1966).", 'opening_date': '1966-03-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Georgia O'Keeffe. University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque (September 8-October 13, 1966).", 'opening_date': '1966-09-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Georgia O'Keeffe. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (October 8-November 29, 1970); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (January 6-February 7, 1971); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (March 15-April 30, 1971).", 'opening_date': '1970-10-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (October 6, 2007-January 13, 2008).", 'opening_date': '2007-10-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Georgia O'Keeffe. Tate Modern, London (July 6-October 30, 2016); Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien (December 7, 2016-March 26, 2017); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (April 22-July 30, 2017).", 'opening_date': '2016-07-06T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1986- footnotes: citations: Collection of the artist, Santa Fe, New Mexico date: 1943-1986 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS O'Keeffe, Georgia. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Studio Book. New York: Viking Press, 1976. page number: Reproduced: fig. 93 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 171 url: O'Keeffe, Georgia, John Loengard, and Lothar Schirmer. Georgia O'Keeffe/John Loengard: Paintings & Photographs: a Visit to Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch. München: Schirmer Mosel, 2006. page number: Reproduced: fig. 3 url: Georgia O'Keefe, Last Will and Testament, Aug. 22, 1979, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Feldman, Anita, et al. O'Keeffe and Moore. (San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2023). page number: Mentioned p. 48; reproduced p. 59 url: Weisman, Celia. "O'Keeffe's Art: Sacred Symbols and Spiritual Quest." Women's Art Journal 3 no. 2 (Fall 1982/Winter 1983). page number: Mentioned: p. 11-12 url: "Art Museum Gets O'Keeffe Paintings." The Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 22, 1986. page number: url: Cleveland Museum of Art. "The Year in Review for 1987." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (1987). page number: Mentioned: p. 67; Reproduced: p. 61 url: Culllinan, Helen. "Georgia On Our Minds; O'Keeffe Legacy: 5 Glowing New Oils at Museum." The Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 5, 1987. page number: url: Wellish, Marjorie. "House Beautiful." In The Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon, edited by Christopher Merrill and Ellen Bradbury, 127-133. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. co., 1992. page number: Mentioned: p. 129 url: Merrill, Christopher, Ellen Bradbury, James Kraft, Anna Chave, Lisa Mintz Messinger, MaLin Wilson-Powell, Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall, Jennifer Saville, and Barbara Buhler Lynes. From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe As Icon. 1992. page number: Mentioned: p. 25; Reproduced: p. 25 url: Eldredge, Charles. Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. page number: Reproduced: fig. 69 url: Benke, Brittae. Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986: Blumen in der Wüste. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 67 url: Novak, Barbara. "Georgia O'Keeffe and American Intellectual and Visual Traditions." In The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, edited by Peter H. Hassrick. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997. page number: Mentioned: p. 79; Reproduced: p. 79 url: Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 666 url: Czestochowski, Joseph S., and Marjorie P. Balge-Crozier. Georgia O'Keeffe Visions of the Sublime. Memphis: Torch Press and International Arts, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 148 url: Corn, Wanda M., and Patricia McDonnell. The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935. Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Art Museum, 2005. page number: Mentioned: p. 423; Reproduced: p. 249 url: Souter, Janet, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Parkstone, 2005. page number: Mentioned: p. 149; Reproduced: p. 148 url: Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Mentioned: p. 142; Reproduced: p. 143 url: Leeds, Valerie Ann, and Diana M. Vela. Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image. Fort Worth, TX: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, 2010. page number: Mentioned: p. 25; Reproduced: p. 25 url: Lynes, Barbara Buhler, and Judy Lopez. Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu. New York: Abrams, in association with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 49 url: Pollock, Griselda. "Seeing O'Keeffee Seeing." In Georgia O'Keeffe, edited by Tanya Barsonr, 102-137. London: Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd., 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 110 url: Eldredge, Charles C. Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 127 url: Lynes, Barbara Buhler, and Russell Bowman. O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 66 url: Lynes, Barbara Buhler, Lesley Poling-Kempes, and Frederick W. Turner. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 83 url: --- IMAGES