Image: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Kemper Museum staff are sharing insights about a favorite work currently on view.
Gigi Johnston, identified as a Shop Associate, invites audiences to discover ‘Autumn Trees—The Chestnut Tree—Red, 1924’ by Georgia O’Keeffe. The museum identifies the work as ‘Autumn Trees—The Chestnut Tree—Red,’ made in 1924 by O’Keeffe and featured in ‘Lie. Sit. Stand. Be Still.’
The museum’s artwork listing classifies the piece as a painting made with oil on canvas. The listing names the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection and identifies the collection as belonging to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
O’Keeffe is identified as American, born in 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, and deceased in 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.