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Oil on canvas, 27 7/16 x 23 1/2 inches
CR No. 288
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.13
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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:
- "Series I - [illegible words] / Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "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
1946–1947
Whitney Museum of American Art
University of Michigan, Museum of Art
Springfield Museums
Delaware Art Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Phillips Memorial Gallery
New Orleans Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Minnesota Museum of American Art
Columbus Museum of Art
Munson Museum
Smith College Museum of Art
1956
1958–1959
Whitney Museum of American Art
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
1960
1963–1964
Whitney Museum of American Art
Saint Louis Art Museum
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
Art Institute of Chicago
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
1979
1984
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Yokohama Museum of Art
1998–1999
1999–2000
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG)
2007–2008
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
High Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Phillips Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2011–2012
2016–2017
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh, and More)
Musee d'Orsay (as Beyond the Stars. The Mystical Landscape from Monet to Kandinsky)
2018–2019
2019–2020
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Centre Georges Pompidou
Fondation Beyeler
2022–2023
(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)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 10/15/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
154
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