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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Lines, 1916
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Lines, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.1

Vertical watercolor on paper of very simple calligraphic black thin lines. There is a thick stroke along the bottom edge, with two delicate lines growing out. The one on the right traverses across the page through the middle to the top. The other on the left follows closely parallel up the page till the middle, where it makes a backwards N shape off to the left.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

63

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite)

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Private collection, New York, N.Y., 1949 (Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Andrew Crispo, New York, N.Y., 1979 Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 7064, lot no. 149, 3 December 1997

Exhibition History

1980 Lincoln, no. 2
1993 London (Hayward), no. 6
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) The Poetry of Things
2000 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Views of the City
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Frames of Preference
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Katsina)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modern Nature)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Abiquiu Views x 2)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GR Views / Covarrubias)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
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149