By Canadian Press

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum buys rare ‘Ritz Tower’ painting

Jan 30, 2019 | 12:31 PM

SANTA FE, N.M. — The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has announced it has purchased a rare painting of the American artist’s take on a New York skyscraper.

The Santa Fe, New Mexico, museum said this week it bought the 1928 “Ritz Tower” painting in October from a private collector.

The slender painting is one of O’Keeffe’s rare depictions of skyscrapers in New York City.

O’Keeffe created the image after her male peers discouraged her from painting New York subjects.

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O’Keeffe curator Ariel Plotek says the work fills a hole in the museum’s collection. Plotek declined to say how much it cost.

Ritz Tower will be on view in the museum’s galleries on March 1.

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin-born O’Keeffe, known for her surreal images of the American Southwest, lived and painted for decades in Abiquiu, New Mexico.

The Associated Press