Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
Black Cross, New Mexico
INV-4632
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)1929
Black Cross, New Mexico
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) →Modernismoil on canvaspainting
Date
1929
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
99.4 × 76.2 cm (39 1/8 × 30 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Art Institute Purchase Fund
“For me, painting the crosses was a way of painting the country,” recalled Georgia O’Keeffe about the series of compositions featuring Catholic crosses that she created upon visiting the Southwest in 1929. In Black Cross, New Mexico, she contrasted the handmade cross, magnified in scale and isolated flat against the picture plane, with the distant brilliance of the sunset behind the rolling hills. O’Keeffe’s cross paintings helped cement her association with New Mexico, to which she would return every summer until she moved there permanently in 1949. The Art Institute organized her first major museum retrospective in 1943, and purchased this painting at the time.
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