Detail View: The AMICA Library: Black Cross, New Mexico
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AMICA ID:
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AIC_.1943.95
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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O'Keeffe, Georgia
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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American; 1887-1986
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Title:
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Black Cross, New Mexico
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Title Type:
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preferred
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View:
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full view
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Creation Date:
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1929
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Creation Start Date:
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1929
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Creation End Date:
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1929
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Materials and Techniques:
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Oil on canvas
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Classification Term:
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oil on canvas
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Classification Term:
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Modern and Contemporary Art
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Creation Place:
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North and Central America,North America,United States
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Dimensions:
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39 x 30 in. (99.2 x 76.3 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
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Owner Location:
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
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1943.95
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Credit Line:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Art Instistute Purchase Fund
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Copyright:
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? The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Rights:
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Context:
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In her 1976 autobiography, O'Keeffe explained, '...one evening when I was living in Taos [New Mexico] we walked back of the morada toward a cross in the hills. I was told that it was a Penitente cross but that meant little to me at the time. The cross was large enough to crucify a man, with two small crosses-one on either side. It was in the late light and the cross stood out-dark against the evening sky.' Still active in northern New Mexico, part of the territory settled by the Spanish as early as the seventeeth century, Penitentes are secret lay brotherhoods that meet in remote moradas (chapels) near which they may erect crosses for their devout Passion week rites. Curiously, when this painting was first exhibited in 1930, it was entitled 'Black Cross, Arizona' and captions for reproductions in magazines published in the 1930s also refer to the setting as Arizona. O'Keeffe often merged different locales into single paintings, and perhaps the original title refers to the background hills rather than to the New Mexico sanctuary with the cross. The present title was first used for the catalogue of the O'Keeffe retrospective organized by the Art Institute in 1943.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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AIC_.E09415.tif
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