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The Checkered Dress (Portrait of O'Keeffe)
The Checkered Dress (Portrait of O'Keeffe)
Object number1932.1.5

The Checkered Dress (Portrait of O'Keeffe)

Date1907
Artist (American, 1881-1963)
MediumWatercolor and gouache on cream laid paper, with JW watermark, mounted on paperboard
DimensionsMatted: 28 3/16 × 22 1/16 in. (71.6 × 56 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/8 × 16 1/4 in. (56.2 × 41.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mary S. Bedell, class of 1873
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (LR): Hilda Belcher
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York Watercolor Club, 1907;

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, 1907;

Poughkeepsie, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection," May 8- July 26, 2009;

Glens Falls, New York, The Hyde Collection, "Modern Nature: Georgia O'keeffe and Lake George," June 15-September 15, 2013;

Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'keeffe Musuem, "Modern Nature: Georgia O'keeffe and Lake George," October 4,2013-January 26, 2014;

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Musuem, "Modern Nature: Georgia O'keeffe and Lake George," February 8-May 11, 2014;

New York, Brooklyn Museum, "Georgia O'keeffe: Modern Living," March 3-July 23, 2017.
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