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Georgia O'Keeffe
No. 17 – Special, 1919
Georgia O'Keeffe
No. 17 – Special, 1919
Charcoal on paper, 19 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.15

Charcoal drawing of two distinct dark lines that run down the center of the paper. Peeping out of these lines are two small dark half spheres, as if emerging from behind curtains, located in the upper center of the painting. These are the darkest of the entire composition, touched with highlights that suggest a full roundness to them.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

280

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Backing:
1. "No. 17 - 1919 - / Special" (graphite)
2. OK * (graphie)

Provenance

The Burnett Foundation (partial share) The Burnett Foundation (Fort Worth) 1996 Fort Worth/Texas, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation 1993 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) Georgia O'Keeffe 1986 Abiquiu/New Mexico

Exhibition History

1993 London (Hayward), no. 1
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) The Poetry of Things
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz: Gift of GOKF
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and the Camera; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Shared Intelligence; all venues
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