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Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 16 1/16 inches
CR No. 706
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.17
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Architectural painting of a white church steeple with black bell and white cross positioned on top of an adobe church.
CR No. 706
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Church Steeple
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Bell & Cross – Ranchos Church, New Mexico
Selected Exhibition Titles
Bell, Cross, Ranchos Church, New Mexico
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Not listed in catalogue [1931 exhibition]....Sold to Mrs. Simmons (beds). Ptd. 1930. 'New Mexico Cross on Dark Steeple.'" Abiquiú Notebooks indicates not included in catalogue. This painting does not have a pitched roof beneath either of its bell towers. Stieglitz, however, who wrote "Ranchos Church: on the label he affixed to its backing, would not have known one New Mexico church from another, and because O'Keeffe had completed many paintings of this subject, he obviously thought of this as another example. My thanks to Peter Hassrick for calling my attention to this title/subject inconsistency. Titled Church Steeple – Cross in American Artist (June 1943). See cat. no. 1887. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: "#4" (unidentified hand, graphite) Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe - / 1930 - " (white paint) Backing: "O'Keeffe Exhibition Jan. - 18 - March 7 / 1931 / Bell & Cross - Ranchos Church, New Mexico - 1930 /(oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe." (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York") (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2003–2004
1988–1989
Phoenix Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
National Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
Aspen Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
2012–2014
Montclair Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
Denver Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
Heard Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2001–2002
National Museum of Women in the Arts (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
McMichael Canadian Art Collection (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
Vancouver Art Gallery (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
New Mexico Museum of Art (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
2019
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
2016–2017
Heide Museum of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
Art Gallery of New South Wales (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
1998–1999
2017–2019
2019–2020
(An American Place, New York, N.Y.)
Mrs. Zalmon Simmons, New York, N.Y., by 1933
Descended in family
Christie's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 6288, lot no. 309, 5 December 1986
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1986
Private collection, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1988
(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.)
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
76
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