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She was drawn to the theories of the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, who, in his 1912 text <em>Concerning the Spiritual in Art<\/em>, argued that visual artists should emulate music in order to achieve pure expression free of literary references.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Around 1920 O\u2019Keeffe painted a number of oils exploring, as she later recalled, \u201cthe idea that music could be translated into something for the eye.\u201d She was drawn to the theories of the Russian Expressionist painter Vasily Kandinsky, who, in his 1912 text <em>Concerning the Spiritual in Art<\/em>, argued that visual artists should emulate music in order to achieve pure expression free of literary references.","dimensions":"58.4 \u00d7 48.3 cm (23 \u00d7 19 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":48,"height":58,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe","catalogue_display":"<p>Lynes 1999 344<\/p>","publication_history":"<em>Alfred Stieglitz Presents One Hundred Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe, American<\/em>, exh. cat. (The Anderson Galleries, 1923), no. 27.\n\nHerbert J. Seligmann, \"Why 'Modern' Art?\", <em>Vogue<\/em>, Oct. 15, 1923, 76\u201377 (ill.), as <em>Music<\/em>.\n\nFrank Jewett Mather et al., \"Georgia O'Keeffe\", in <em>The American Spirit in Art<\/em> vol. 12, <em>The Pageant of America<\/em>, ed. Ralph Henry Gabriel (Yale University Press, 1927), 155\u201378 (ill.), as <em>Music \u2013 Blue and Black and Green<\/em>.\n\nJames W. Lane and Leo Katz, <em>The Work of Georgia O'Keeffe: a Portfolio of Twelve Paintings<\/em>, (Knight Publishers, 1937), pl. 6 (ill.), as <em>Music \u2013 Blue, Black and Green<\/em>. \n\nSheldon Cheney, <em>A Primer of Modern Art<\/em> (Tudor Publishing Company, 1939), as <em>Music Black Blue and Green<\/em>. \n\nDaniel Catton Rich and Mitchell A. Wilder, <em>Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1943), 11, cat. 5 (ill.).\n\nMilton W. Brown, <em>American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression<\/em> (Princeton University Press, 1955), 126 (ill.). \n\nLloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry, <em>Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/em> (Praeger, 1970), 32, cat. 23 (ill.).\n\nTate Gallery, <em>Abstraction: Towards a New Art, Painting 1910\u201320<\/em>, exh. cat. (Tate Gallery Publications, 1980), 118, 120, cat. 438 (ill.).\n\nCharles C. Eldredge, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern<\/em>, exh. cat. (Yale University Press, 1993), cat. 21.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth\u2013Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 46 (ill.).\n\nSharyn Rohlfsen Udall, <em>O'Keeffe and Texas<\/em>, exh. cat. (Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum\/Harry N. Abrams), cat. 35.\n\nBarbara Buhler Lynes, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9<\/em>, vol. 1 (National Gallery of Art; Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation; Yale University Press, 1999), no. 344.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 102\u2013104, cat. 35 (ill.).\n\nTanya Barson, ed., <em>Georgia O'Keeffe<\/em>, exh. cat. (Abrams, 2016), cat. 28.\n\nBarbara Schaefer and Anita Hachmann, eds., <em>Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-amerikanische Kunst [Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of American Art]<\/em>, exh. cat. (Wienand Verlag, 2019), cat. 105.\n\nMarta Ruiz del \u00c1rbol et al., <em>Georgia O'Keeffe<\/em> exh. cat. (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2021), cat. 19 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"New York, The Anderson Galleries, <em>Alfred Stieglitz Presents One Hundred Pictures: Oils, Water\u2013colors, Pastels, Drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe, American<\/em>, Mar. 3\u201316, 1923, no. 27.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <em>Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/em>, Jan. 21\u2013Feb. 22, 1943, cat. 5.\n\nNew York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Georgia O\u2019Keeffe<\/em>, Oct. 8\u2013Nov. 29, 1970, cat. 23; the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 1\u2013Feb. 7, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 15\u2013Apr. 30, 1971.\n\nLondon, Tate Gallery, <em>Abstraction: Towards a New Art, Painting 1910\u201320<\/em>, Feb. 5\u2013Apr. 13, 1980, cat. 438.\n\nLondon, Hayward Gallery, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern<\/em>, Apr. 8\u2013June 22, 1993, cat. 21; Mexico City, Palacio de Bellas Artes, July 15\u2013Oct. 1, 1993, Japan, Yokohama Museum of Art, Oct. 30, 1993\u2013Jan. 16, 1994 (London and Mexico City only).\n\nSan Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, <em>O'Keeffe and Texas<\/em>, Jan. 27\u2013Apr. 5, 1998, no. 35.\n\nWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, <em>Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America<\/em>, Jan. 28\u2013Apr. 22, 2001.\n\nWashington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, <em>Visual Music, 1905\u20132005<\/em>; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Feb. 13\u2013May 22, 2005, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 23\u2013Sept. 11, 2005.\n\nParis, Centre Georges Pompidou, <em>Sons et Lumi\u00e8res: A History of Sound in 20th Century Art <\/em>, Sept. 22, 2004\u2013Jan. 3, 2005. \n\nWhitney Museum of American Art, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction<\/em>, Sept. 17, 2009\u2013Jan. 17, 2010; Washington DC, Phillips Collection, Feb. 6\u2013May 9, 2012; Santa Fe, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, May 28\u2013Sept. 12, 2010 (New York only).\n\nLondon, Tate Modern, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe<\/em>, July 6\u2013Oct. 30, 2016; Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Dec. 7, 2016\u2013Mar. 26, 2017; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Apr. 22\u2013July 30, 2017 (London only) cat. 28.\n\nCologne, Germany, Wallraf\u2013Richartz\u2013Museum, <em>Es war einmal in Amerika \u2013 300 Jahre US\u2013amerikanische Kunst [Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of American Art]<\/em>, Nov. 23, 2018\u2013Mar. 24, 2019, cat. 105.\n\nMadrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen\u2013Bornemisza, <em>Georgia O'Keeffe<\/em>, Apr. 20\u2013Aug. 8, 2021, cat. 19 (ill.); Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Sept. 8\u2013Dec. 6, 2021; Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Jan. 23\u2013May 22, 2022.","provenance_text":"Georgia O\u2019Keeffe (1887\u20131986), New York and New Mexico, then Abiqui\u00fa, NM, from 1949 [on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago from 1949; letter from O\u2019Keeffe to Charles C. 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