Object number1932.1.5
The Checkered Dress (Portrait of O'Keeffe)
Date1907
Artist
Hilda Belcher
(American, 1881-1963)
CultureAmerican
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)
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 viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (LR): Hilda Belcher
Bibliography
1939 Catalog, p. 54;
Pllitzer, Anita, "A Woman on Pater- Georgia O'Keefe," (Tenth Avenue Editions, Inc., New York, 1988), p.93;
Giboire, Clive, "Lovingly Georgia," (Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 1990)
Cohen Janie, "Hilda Belcher, A Realist Rediscovered," in American Art Review, Vol. VI, Number 4, Agust-September 1994, p.95;
Henkes, Robert, "Famous American Women in Portraiture, McFarland & Company, Inc., (Jefferson, North Carolina, 1996)
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection," (Poughkeepsie, New York, 2009);
Cole, Erin B., Gwendolyn Owens, and Bruce Robertson, "Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George," (Thames & Hudson, New York, 2013), p.95, fig. 53;
Corn, Wanda M., Georgia O'Keefe: Modern Living," (Brooklyn Musuem, New York, 2017), p.30, fig. 16.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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