Exhibition History

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Exhibition History

Sue Canterbury (Editor)

Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow

Exhibition History

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Sue Canterbury (Editor)

PublisherDallas Museum of Art

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Exhibition History

Erin Piñon and Lea Stephenson

All exhibitions are group exhibitions unless otherwise noted.

Exhibition titles and venues are transcribed from original sources when available. When no checklist exists, references to specific objects (titles or descriptions) in the press reviews are provided.

ABBREVIATIONS

NAWPS (National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors)

SSAL (Southern States Art League)

SSSA (Spring Salon, Salons of America)

WAA (Whittier Art Association)

1927
December 16, 1927–January 12, 1928
Third exhibition of the Opportunity Gallery at the Art Center, 65 East 56th Street, New York City

44. Aquarium
45. Still Life
46. Tree
47. Field
48. Sea-Shells

1932
April 26
Portage Public Library, Portage, Wisconsin
Solo: Monotypes, drypoints, woodcuts, aquatints, and lithographs

– Mountain Stream
– Marquette Bids Mother Farewell in France
– Indians See Marquette on Saint Lawrence
– Marquette’s Host and Hostess in the Wilderness
– Marquette at Portage
– Marquette’s Work at an End

1933
January
Madison Art Association, Wheeler Conservatory of Music, Madison, Wisconsin
Dual exhibition of Catherine Klenert and Ida O’Keeffe
Prints by Ida O’Keeffe

2. Tenebrae Sung by Paulus Fathers
3. Marquette’s Host and Hostess
4. Marquette Bids Mother Farewell in France
5. Indians See Marquette on Saint Lawrence
6. Birches—Spring Green, Wisconsin
7. Bridge Construction
8. Mountain Stream
9. Stone Mountain—Connecticut
10. Palisades—New York City
11. Sunset on the Dunes of Cape Cod
13. Marquette’s Work at an End
15. Snow at Spring Green, Wisconsin
16. Play on the Prairie
17. Marquette at Portage
18. Virginia Negro in New York City

Oils by Ida O’Keeffe

17A. Lighthouse, No. 1
18A. Lighthouse, No. 2
19. Lighthouse, No. 3
20. Lighthouse, No. 4
21. Lighthouse, No. 5
22. Lighthouse, No. 6
23. Lighthouse, No. 7
33. Royal Oak of Tennessee
34. Peach-Blown Vase
35. Roots
36. Yellow Turkeys
37. A Wild Turkey

March 27–April 9
Delphic Studios, New York City
Solo: Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe
Exhibition also included artwork by Ida’s grandmothers

1–7. The Highland Lighthouse
8–11. Cherokee Indian Pipes
8. Pigeon Totem Pipe
9. Duck Totem Pipe
10. Effigy Pipe, No. I
11. Effigy Pipe, No. II
12. Pawpaws
13. Toad Stool
14. Flowers [Roses]
15. Roots
16. Royal Oak of Tennessee
17. Turkeys
18. Houses
19–22. Teens to Forties—Alley Folk
19. Age 13 (ink wash)
20. Age 23 (ink wash)
21. Age 33 (ink wash)
22. Age 43 (ink wash)
23–31. Monotypes
23. Tenebrae, Paulist Fathers, No. I
24. Tenebrae, Paulist Fathers, No. II
25. Death
26. Construction
27. Water and Rocks
28. Earth and Sky
29. Indians
30. Palisades
31. Cape Cod
32. Winter (aquatint)
33. Birches (drypoint)
34. Negress (lithograph)
35. A Nude (crayon)

April (before April 23)
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Solo: Ida O’Keeffe, oils and works on paper
Oils (including Lighthouse paintings), ink washes, monotypes, aquatints, drypoints, crayons, and lithographs (reports on size of object checklist differ—51 versus 54)

– Peach-Blown Vase (added to checklist)

October
Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, Springfield, Missouri
Solo (repeat of the exhibition at Springfield Art Museum)
Oils and watercolors (reports on size of object checklist differ—45 versus 51)

1934
April 9–May 6
SSSA (Twelfth Annual), Forum Gallery, RCA Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City

2,836. Mount Washington (monotype, sold)
2,837. Home in Land of Plenty
2,838. 1933
2,839. Silence of Eternity
2,840. Roots
2,841. Lighthouse No. 2
2,842. Lighthouse No. 1

1935
May 7–25
SSSA (Thirteenth Annual), American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York City

173. Easter Symphony

1936
January (exact dates unknown)
Solo: Charlotte Women’s Club, Charlotte, North Carolina
Monotypes

– Mission in North Carolina
– Haystack No. 2
– The Last Tree
– Canna
– Turkeys
– Indian Corn
– Cotton
– Islands
– Myself

March 10–May 4
Southern Printmakers
Venues
Birmingham Alabama Library, March 10–20
Montgomery Museum of Arts, April 1–16
Nashville Museum of Art, April 19–May 4

117. Winter
118. Indian Summer
119. Turkeys

March 12–May 10
Fifteenth International Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, Drawings and Monotypes
Art Institute of Chicago

386. Evening (monotype)

April 3–30
Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, SSAL, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

83. My Table (oil)
251. Cotton (monotype); honorable mention
252. Fish (monotype)
– The Flame of Life? (possibly included)

April 3–30
Exhibition also presented at the Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas
April 15–May 17
Cincinnati Art Museum
Forty-third Annual Exhibition of American Art

91. Light (oil)
92. Roses (oil)

April 24–May 17
Society of Independent Artists, Grand Central Palace, New York City
Twentieth Annual Exhibition

639. Why?

May 6–23
SSSA (Fourteenth Annual), American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York City

151. Abstraction

August 2–30
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Solo exhibition of monotypes

– Mount Washington
– Mission in North Carolina
– Corn
– Bumper’s Cabin, N.C.
– Untitled (Forest Scene)

1937
January 18–31
Delphic Studios, New York City
Solo: An Exhibition of Monotypes by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe

1. Rockland, Maine
2. Which Way?
3. Indian Summer
4. Fish
5. Bumper’s Cabin
6. The Little Mill
7. Rhododendron
8. Mount Washington
9. Turkeys
10. Winter
11. The Old Camp
12. Canna
13. Self-Portrait
14. Winter Night
15. The Fly
16. Mission in North Carolina
17. Deer Isle
18. Sunset in Maine
19. The Harvest
20. Night Boat on Hudson
21. Tenebrae by Paulist Fathers I and II
22. Early Americans
23. Construction
24. Sunset
25. A Passing Race
26. Water Power
27. Land and Sky
28. Hudson River
29. Corn
30. Evening I and II
31. Water Birds

January 22–February 11
NAWPS, New York City

– My Table (De Forest Prize, $100)
– Evening (monotype)

February
Park School, Baltimore
Solo exhibition of monotypes

April 1–26
Seventeenth Annual Exhibition, SSAL, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

78. Pawpaws

May
Delgado Museum, New Orleans

– Fish

April 8
Memorial Union Building, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Solo exhibition of 33 monotypes

September
Southwest Missouri State Teachers College, Springfield, Missouri
Solo exhibition of monotypes, drypoints, etchings (two), and a self-portrait (print or drawing)

November 30–December 19
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Prints

60. Oh My God

1938
January 4–21
NAWPS, Forty-seventh Annual Exhibition, New York City

– The Last Pine

October 16–30
Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio
Solo: Ida O’Keeffe Monotypes
30 monotypes and etchings

October 26–November 9
Inaugural exhibition of the Mary Bonner Graphic Arts Club, San Antonio, Texas

1939
February 1–18
Park Art Galleries, New York City
Solo: Paintings and Monotypes by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe

Paintings

1. Ozark Fox Hounds
2. Ozark Bush Ape
3. Texas Hillbillies
4. Creation
5. My Table
6. Lighthouse
7. Gopoogie
8. Lighthouse
9. Lighthouse
10. Lighthouse
11. Lighthouse
12. Highland Lighthouse
13. Lighthouse
14. Last Pine
15. Late Spring
16. Abstraction in Red
17. Flame of Life
18. Whirl of Life
19. Coxcomb
20. Cactus
21. White Roses
22. Infinity
23. Ozark Lime Kill [sic]

Monotypes

1. Indian Summer
2. Rockland, Maine
3. Bumper’s Cabin, N.C.
4. Evening
5. Turkeys
6. The Little Mill
7. Rhododendrons
8. Hillbilly Sage
9. Hudson Riverboat
10. Mission, North Carolina
11. Depression

1940
April 22–May 4
Argent Galleries, New York City
Solo: Paintings of Missouri Texas Cuba by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe
Exhibited twenty-three paintings, including

– Two Lighthouses
– Abstraction No. 1
– Abstraction No. 2
– Old San Antonio
– Texas Plains
– Ozark Lime Kiln
– Old San Antonio
– Mahogany Forest
– Coxcomb
– White Roses
– Rubber Plant

September 16–27/28
Sachs Auditorium, New York City
Solo exhibition of monotypes

– Deer Isle, Maine

September 28–October 12
Vendome Art Galleries, New York City Fall group show: Watercolors, Oils

1941
February 16
Mount Holly Courthouse, New Jersey
First Annual Art Show, sponsored by Women’s League

April
Argent Galleries, New York City
National Association of Women Artists (successor organization to NAWPS)

– The Metropolitan Scene
– My Back Yard

1942
April 9–April 30
University of Georgia, Athens
SSAL, Twenty-second Annual Convention

48. Our American Tradition (Price: $550)

1944
May 7
WAA Annual Spring Membership Exhibition, Whittier, California
Honorable mention to Miss Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe for oils

June
Whittier Woman’s Club
Two oil paintings of the Pio Pico mansion

August 17–19
Whittier Country Fair
First prize in the category Landscapes in Oil

1945
May
WAA Annual Spring Membership Exhibition, Whittier

– Black Lilys [sic] (second place in oils)

November 4–29
WAA Annual Fall Membership Exhibition, Whittier

– Our American Tradition
– Kiln in the Ozarks

1946
January 5–February 2
International Art, Los Angeles
Solo: Abstract Paintings by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe
Including Lighthouses

January 27–February 10
Santa Cruz Art League, Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, California
Seventeenth Annual Statewide Art Exhibition: Paintings, Oils, Watercolors, and Pastels

122. Black Lilies

March 10–April 4
WAA Main Gallery, Whittier
Solo: Ida O’Keeffe: Landscapes (“ranging from New England lighthouses to California deserts”)

Ends May 27
Whittier Woman’s Club, Whittier
Etchings, oils, and watercolors, including

– Desert Space
– Desert Canyons

November
WAA Annual Fall Membership Show, Whittier

– Country Doctor

December
International Art, Los Angeles Christmas Exhibition

1948
July
California Art Club, City Hall, Los Angeles

Black Lilies

November
WAA Annual Fall Membership Show

3. Black Lilly [sic]
11. Late Autumn Evening (honorable mention)

1949
May
WAA Annual Spring Membership Show

– Black Lillies [sic] (won the “Popular Prize” by poll of the audience)

July
California Art Club, City Hall, Los Angeles
(Continuation of WAA Annual Spring Membership Show)

– Black Lillies [sic]

1950
May
WAA Annual Spring Membership Show

– Sun Bathing

September–October
Colonial Inn, Hollywood, California
Solo: Oil Paintings of Ida O’Keeffe

1951
November
WAA Annual Fall Membership Show

6. Stripes (painting of skunks playing)

1952
May
WAA Annual Spring Member Show

8. Her Royal Highness

1954
August 16–30
Friendly Hills Public Library, Colima, California
Solo: Desert and flower paintings, and one water scene

– Black Lillies [sic] Framed in Red Velvet (sold)
– Wild Doves (sold)

As early as December 21–January 14, 1955
Bank of America Gallery, Whittier
Solo: Nine oil paintings

1955
March–April 1
Hinshaw’s Department Store Auditorium, Whittier
Solo: Nineteen oil paintings, including

– Lighthouse series
– Flame of Life

1956
June 3–16/17
WAA, Whittier
Artist of the Month—Ida O’Keeffe
Twelve oil paintings, including

– Zachary (portrait study)
– Ozark Lime Kiln
– Flight
– Still Life (Still Life with Fruit)
– Variation on a Lighthouse Theme, No. III, c. 1931–1932

June
WAA Annual Spring Membership Exhibition, Whittier

– Black Lilys [sic] (second prize)

October 1–2
Security First National Bank, East Whittier
WAA Annual Fall Membership Show

– Desert Scene

1959
May 9
Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles
American Association of University Women (AAUW) State Convention Art Exhibit

– Discovering the World (oil)

1960
November–December
Murphy Memorial Hospital, Whittier, exhibition sponsored by WAA
Solo: Sixteen oil paintings, including

– Painting of “Ozark mountain people”
– Atom Bomb
– Boat House at Newport Beach

1974
Santa Fe, venue unknown
(arranged by Claudia O’Keeffe)
Solo

Undated
August
Jean Seth’s Canyon Road Art Gallery, Santa Fe

Undated
WAA Annual Spring Membership Exhibition

5. Abstraction in Red

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