Corn, No. 2, 1924
Corn, No. 2, 1924
Oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 10 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.6
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical canvas of lush green leaves of corn. An aerial view of the top of a corn stalk, with two main diagonally unfolding leaves curving out and away from the center of the stalk. Leaves tinged with yellow and blue-green, fluidly expanding over the hints of a pinkish background.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
454
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher:1. "F / K 27" (unidentified hand, green ink)
2. "greenish / whitewood [drawing of frame and two illegible words] 10 x 27" (GO, graphite)
3. "O #11" (GO, black crayon)
Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe - 1924" (white paint)
Backing:
1. OK * (graphite)
2. "Corn - 1924 / (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe" (AS, AAP1, black ink)
Provenance
Estate of the artist, 1986 Georgia O'Keeffe 1986 Abiquiu/New Mexico, Estate of the artist, 1986 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)Exhibition History
1925 New York (Anderson), no. 115, as Corn--No. 21934 New York (An American Place) ?
1974 New York (Washburn), no. 3
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Color and Conservation
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and the Camera; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Modern Nature
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift
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