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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Abstraction, 1927
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Abstraction, 1927
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 1/4 inches
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1969 [gift of the artist] (69.278.2)

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Catalogue Raisonné Number

574

Inscriptions

Backing: "Box 13 / on 2" (DB, black ink)

Exhibition History

1928 New York (Intimate Gallery – O'Keeffe), no. 36, as Abstraction Black; 1933 New York (An American Place), no. 22, as Black Abstraction; 1936 New York (MOMA – Modern Painting); 1941 New York (An American Place – October), no. 11, as Black Abstraction; 1943 Chicago, no. 18; 1946 New York (MOMA – Retro), no. 28; 1948 New York (MOMA – Alfred Stieglitz), no. 78; 1950 New York (Metropolitan); 1951 New York (Metropolitan); 1951 New York (MOMA – Abstract); 1958 New York (Metropolitan); 1963 Washington (Corcoran – New Traditions), no. 77; 1966 Albuquerque; 1966 Fort Worth; 1970 New York (Whitney), no. 52; 1987 Washington, no. 54; 1993 Berlin; 1998 San Antonio, no. 19
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Source System ID

8644