Abstraction White, 1927
Abstraction White, 1927
Oil on canvas, 34 x 14 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.20
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical canvas of mostly white, grey, and black. A diagonal line from the upper right to the lower left divides the canvas, and a second diagonal line starts in the middle of the first and goes from left to lower right ending in the middle of the bottom of the canvas. A dark black area follows the lines of the diagonals on the right, blending out into grey and back to white.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
571
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: "OKeeffe#5" (unidentified hand, graphite)Backing:
1. OK * (graphite)
2. "Catalogue#35 / Exhibition 1928 / Abstraction White 1927 / by Georgia O'Keeffe / Vault I 1484" (AS, graphite)
Provenance
[----] Joan T. Washburn, New York, NYExhibition History
1928 New York (Intimate Gallery - O'Keeffe), no. 35, as "Abstraction White";1933 New York (An American Place), no. 19, as "White Abstraction";
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift
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