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Oil on canvas, 35 x 18 1/8 inches
CR No. 481
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation and an anonymous donor
1997.2.1
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Vertical canvas in mostly grey - blue palette. Lower portion has house with pink triangular roof and black doorway, in front of dark grayish blue hill. Above a 2/3 full moon shape with large darker blue/grey circle around it in lighter grey sky. Entire composition crossed vertically by grey line along left hand side (flagpole).
CR No. 481
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Flagpole
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Flagpole – Little House & Moonring Lake George
Selected Exhibition Titles
Little House with Flagpole
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Little House with Flagpole
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted in 1925.... Exam. at Amer. Place, March, 1946.... No signature." Titled "Flagpole' 1925" by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. Either this or cat. entries 361 or 446 mentioned in 1934 New York (An American Place) exhibition review in New York Times (1934). See cat. nos. 361, 446. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: "#8 / St 17% x 34%" (George Of, graphite) Backing:
- "Georgia O'Keeffe / Abiquiu N.M." (black ink) 2.OK {5star} (graphite)
- "Flagpole — Little House & Moonring / Lake George / 1925 / O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1975
1990–1991
1992–1993
The Phillips Collection
IBM Gallery of Science and Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Yokohama Museum of Art
1997–1998
1998–1999
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG)
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2016
2017–2019
2018–2019
2019–2020
2020–2021
2024–2025
2026–2027
Private collection, San Antonio, Tex., purchase, 1968
(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.,)
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 10/15/2026
Last verified by current collection
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