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Cebolla Church

Artist Georgia O'Keeffe American, 1887–1986

Date1945

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions20 1/16 x 36 1/4 in. (51 x 92.1 cm)
Frame: 23 1/2 x 39 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (59.7 x 101 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), in honor of Joseph C. Sloane

Object numberG.72.18.1

On View

On view

ProvenanceCreated New Mexico, 1945; collection of the artist, Abiquiu, NM; [The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY]; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 1947; [Plaza Galleries, New York, May 14, 1953, no. 100]; [The Downtown Gallery, New York]; Mr. and Mrs. George Kogel, King’s Point, NY, 1956; [Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago]; private collection, Chicago, IL; [Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, 1971]; [Goodman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1972]; [Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1972]; sold to NCMA, 1972.Published ReferencesBen Wolf, "O'Keeffe Annual," Art Digest 20 (March 1, 1946),15.

"The Passing Shows: Georgia O'Keeffe," Art News 45 (March 1946), 53-54, discussed 54.

"Biennial Report: Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), listed 45, illus. (b-w) 20.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 60, illus. (color) 61.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Viking Press, 1976), discussed no. 69, illus. (color).

Lori Simmons Zelenko, "People, Places & Events," American Artist 47 (March 1983), noted 6, illus. (b-w) fig. 7.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, by The University of North Carolina Press,1983), illus. (color) 27.

Katherine Hoffman, An Enduring Spirit: The Art of Georgia O'Keeffe (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1984), discussed 113, illus. (b-w) pl. LL.

Toby Smith, "O'Keeffe Country," Impact (Albuquerque Journal magazine) 7 (August 28, 1984), 4-11, discused 11, illus. (color) 8.

Doris Bry and Nicholas Callaway, eds., Georgia O'Keeffe:In the West (New York: Knopf, 1989), illus. (color) p. 69.

Nancy Frazier, Georgia O'Keeffe (London: Bison Books, 1990), illus. (color) 76-77.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 263.

Elizabeth Montgomery, Georgia O'Keeffe (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), illus. (color) 120-121.

Deborah Pope, "Plain Spoken," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997: 98-99, illus. (color) 98. Reprinted in Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books (September 1997), 27, illus. (color).

John W. Coffey, entry for Cebolla Church, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 222, illus. (color).

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe. 2 Vol. Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), 694, illus. (color).

Art Taylor, "Museum Loans," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2002), mentioned 7.

Articles (Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC) (January, February, March 2003), illus. (b-w), unnumbered page.

John W. Coffey, entry for Cebolla Church, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 466, illus. (color) 467.

Liza Wieland, "The Woman in the WIndow" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 20.Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, An American Place, "Georgia O'Keeffe," February 4-March 27, 1946, no. 5.

Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, "Painting in the United States, 1946," October 10-December 8, 1946, no. 4, illus. pl. 29.

Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, "Contemporary American Painting," April 18-May 11, 1947, no. 19.

[Columbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1950.]

Chicago, IL, Richard Gray Gallery, "20th Century American Masters," April 1971.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 60, illus. (color) 61.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," June 17-August 26, 1973.

Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11- April 13, 1975.

Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, "Inaugural Exhibition," February 2- March 2, 1977.

Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House Museum of American Art,"American Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," December 7, 1979-January 31, 1980.

Lincoln, NE, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, "Georgia O'Keeffe," September 9-October 19, 1980, no. 41, illus. (color) 42.

Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Museum, "Georgia O'Keeffe from Southern Collections," March 2-April 27, 2003.

Bentonville, AR, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, “The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art,” May 26–September 3, 2018; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, October 13, 2018–January 20, 2019.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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