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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: O'Keeffe, Georgia Creator Nationality: North American; American Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: American; 1887-1986 Creator Name-CRT: Georgia O'Keeffe Title: Black Cross, New Mexico Title Type: preferred View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1929 Creation End Date: 1929 Creation Date: 1929 Creation Place: North and Central America,North America,United States Object Type: Paintings Classification Term: oil on canvas Classification Term: Modern and Contemporary Art Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas Dimensions: 39 x 30 in. (99.2 x 76.3 cm) AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ID Number: 1943.95 Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Art Instistute Purchase Fund Copyright: ? The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Rights: http://www.arsny.com Context: 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. AMICA ID: AIC_.1943.95 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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