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Georgia O'Keeffe
Series I – From the Plains, 1919
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Series I – From the Plains, 1919
Oil on canvas, 27 7/16 x 23 1/2 inches
CR No. 288
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.13
Oil on canvas, 27 7/16 x 23 1/2 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.13
CR No. 288

Vertical canvas with cloudy blue, green, and cream colored formation filling the bottom half of the painting. Hovering over this in a black background is a foggy streak of red. The upper half of the canvas is traversed by a lightening bolt zig-zag shape in greenish white that cuts through the blue-black of the background.

CR No. 288

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Series I – From the Plains

Source of title: backing inscription 1, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks and backing inscription 3.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

From the Plains

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

From the Plains 'Series I'

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Selected Exhibition Titles

From the Plains
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

General Remarks

Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Whitney Museum, April 1946.... On backing: By O'Keeffe 'Series I – 1919 – The Plains'/Georgia O'Keeffe. Star initials." Whitney Archive indicates, "Note: he above title [From the Plains] give by O'Keeffe." Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 15. O'Keeffe wrote: "From the Plains was painted from something I heard very often – a very special rhythm that would go on for hours and hours – that was shy I painted it again a couple of years ago – From experiences of one kind or another shapes and colors come to me very clearly" (Georgia O'Keeffe to John I. H. Baur, 22 April 1947,Whitney Archive). Mentioned in 1934 New York Times (1934). Titled A Song by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Backing:

  1. "Series I - [illegible words] / Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite)
  2. OK {5star} (graphite)
  3. "Georgia O'Keeffe 1919 / From the Plains oil / An American Place / 509 Madison Ave" (Andrew Droth, Whitney label, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Stone, Newton Centre, Mass., 1955 (Alpha Gallery, Boston, Mass.) Andrew Crispo, New York, N.Y., 1973 Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 7064, lot no. 138, 3 December 1997 (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 10/15/2026

Source System ID

154

Other IDs

288, Catalogue Raisonné