{"classified_as":[{"_id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300078925","label":"watercolors (paintings)","type":"Type"},{"_label":"Collection Item","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404024","type":"Type"}],"id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/object/8261","identified_by":[{"classified_as":[{"_label":"non-preferred identifiers","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264273"}],"content":"64, Catalogue Raisonné","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"repository number","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404621"}],"content":"8261","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"catalogue raisonnée number","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026061"}],"content":"64","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"non-preferred identifiers","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264273"}],"content":{"alternate-title":{"titles":[{"notes":"Source of title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.","title":"Blue Lines X","type":"alternate-title"}],"type":"alternate-title"},"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne":{"titles":[{"notes":"Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.","title":"Blue Lines","type":"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}],"type":"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}},"type":"Name"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"preferred term","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404670"}],"content":"Blue Lines","type":"Name"}],"produced_by":{"carried_out_by":[{"_label":"Georgia O'Keeffe","id":"actor/2","type":"Actor"}],"timespan":{"type":"TimeSpan"},"type":"Production"},"referred_to_by":[{"classified_as":[{"_label":"extended_medium_description","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/extended_medium_description"}],"content":"Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, cream, slightly textured laid paper* \nWatermark: Blind stamp at corner, STRATHMORE with thistle","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Measurement Description","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/measurement_description"}],"content":"25 x 19 inches","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"selected_references","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/selected_references"}],"content":"Henry Tyrell. \"New York Art Exhibition and Gallery Notes: Esoteric Art at '291'.\" Christian Science Monitor (May 4, 1917), p. 10. \n \nEdward Alden Jewell. \"Georgia O'Keeffe in an Art Review.\" New York Times (February 2, 1934), p. 15. \n \nEdward Alden Jewell. \"O'Keeffe: 30 Years.\" New York Times (May 19, 1946), p. X6, calls it \"Blue Lines\". \n \nF[ilmer]. S[tuart]. C[uckow]. Northrop. The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding. New York, 1947, pp. 162–64, ill. frontispiece, calls it \"Abstraction No. 11\" and \"Abstraction No. 11, The Two Blue Lines\". \n \nBarbara Rose. \"Georgia O'Keeffe's Late Paintings.\" Artforum 9 (November 1970), p. 46. \n \nCharles Child Eldredge. \"Georgia O'Keeffe: The Development of an American Modern.\" PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 1971, pp. 24, 98, 103, fig. 10. \n \nHenry Geldzahler in \"Twentieth Century Art.\" The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965–1975. New York, 1975, p. 212, ill. \n \nGeorgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1976, opp. pl. 1. \n \nLaurie Lisle. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1980, pp. 106, 338. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. \"Georgia O'Keeffe.\" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), pp. 11, 59–60, ill. p. 10. \n \nLaurie Lisle. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Albuquerque, 1986, pp. 78, 265. \n \nBeverly Gherman. Georgia O'Keeffe: The \"Wideness and Wonder\" of Her World. New York, 1986, p. 77. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 19–21, fig. 10. \n \nMichael Berry. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, p. 39, ill. \n \nGeorgia O'Keeffe. Some Memories of Drawings. Ed. Doris Bry. Albuquerque, 1988, pp. 7, 13–15, 97, pl. 1. \n \nAnita Pollitzer. A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 46–47, ill. \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes. O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1989, pp. 22, 168, 325 n. 68, p. 327 n. 84, reprints Ref. Tyrell 1917. \n \nRoxana Robinson. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. New York, 1989, pp. 156, 172, 179, 403. \n \nSarah Whitaker Peters. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991, pp. 99–100. \n \nCharles Child Eldredge. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1991, p. 31, ill. p. 29 (erroneous orientation). \n \nElizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1993, pp. 60–61, ill. \n \nMaria Costantino. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1994, pp. 20, 150, ill. \n \nBritta Benke. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887–1986: Blumen in der Wüste. Cologne, 1994, p. 83, ill. \n \nAnne Middleton Wagner. Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe. Berkeley, 1996, p. 57. \n \nBarbara Rose in The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Ed. Peter H. Hassrick. New York, 1997, pp. 104, 109, ill. p. 105. \n \nBram Dijkstra. Georgia O'Keeffe and the Eros of Place. Princeton, 1998, pp. 155, 159, fig. 48. \n \nSharyn R. Udall. O'Keeffe and Texas. Exh. cat., Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, 1998, p. 93, ill. \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 1, p. 61, no. 64, ill. \n \nEleanor Munro. Originals: American Women Artists. Reprint (1st ed., 1979). [Boulder, Co.], 2000, p. 85. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2001, pp. 29–30, fig. 12. \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman. O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. New York, 2001, pp. 63, 169. \n \nJanet Souter. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2005, p. 5, fig. 2. \n \nJanet Souter. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 2005, pp. 24–25, 34, ill. \n \nSusan Wright. Georgia O'Keeffe: An Eternal Spirit. (1st ed., 1996). [New York], 2006, pp. 6–7, ill. \n \nKaren Moss et al. Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and Florence Miller Pierce. Exh. cat., Orange County Museum of Art. Newport Beach, 2009, pp. 74–75, fig. 44. \n \nBarbara Haskell et al., ed. Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction. New Haven, 2009, pp. 10–11, fig.16. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 14, 196, 199, 277–78, no. 178, ill. (color). \n \nSarah Greenough, ed. My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Vol. 1, 1915–1933. New Haven, Conn., 2011, pp. 20, 29, 77, 79, 81, 84, 89, 125, 144 n. 309, p. 231 n. 462, pp. 446, 453, 457, 659, ill. p. 21. \n \nBritta Benke. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986: Flowers in the Desert. Cologne, 2011, p. 83, ill. (color). \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes in O'Keeffe and Moore. Ed. Anita Feldman. Exh. cat., San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, 2023, pp. 170, 174, fig. 3 (color). \n \nSamantha Friedman. Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 2023, pp. 23, 25, 27, 45–46, 168, fig. 16 (installation photo, Exh. New York 1917), colorpl. 9. \n \nGlenn D. Lowry in Samantha Friedman. Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, 2023, pp. 6–7, ill. (color, drawing featured on invitation to the opening of Exh. New York 1946). \n \nAshley Lazevnick. Fantasies of Precision: American Modern Art, 1908–1947. Minneapolis, 2023, pp. 131–32, 135, 144, 155–56, colorpl. 15.","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Medium and Dimensions","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_medium_dims"}],"content":"Watercolor with graphite on paper, 25 x 19 inches","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"description statement","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416"}],"content":"Two thin vertical lines extend from a horizontal line running along the bottom of the paper. One of the lines zigzags downward near the center of the composition, forming a sideways Z shape. The dark blue forms contrast with the plain white paper on which they appear.","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"provenance_narrative","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/provenance_narrative"}],"content":"The artist (1916–69; on extended loan to MMA, 1949–69; her gift as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to MMA) (Source: The Met, 2025)","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Holding Institution","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_instituion"}],"content":"Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Artist(s)","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_artist"}],"content":"Georgia O'Keeffe","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Complete","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_complete"}],"content":"Georgia O'Keeffe. Blue Lines, 1916. Watercolor with graphite on paper, 25 x 19 inches. Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1969. © Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Title and Date","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_title_date"}],"content":"Blue Lines, 1916","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"cr_remarks_1999","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/cr_remarks_1999"}],"content":["Lost backing inscription [possibly exhibition label] recorded in Metropolitan Museum of Art file: 'Blue Lines No. 10/1916/Georgia O'Keeffe/Special ☆ {5-point star}.'Whitney Archive indicates, 'Note: O'Keeffe says done spring 1916. Infor. from Miss Bry . . .July 1949: On permanent loan from Georgia O'Keeffe as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Coll. 'Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, 'Note: Also titled 'Blue Lines No. 10.''Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1915. O'Keeffe, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive date 1916. Completed in New York before June move to Virginia. Pictured in 1917 New York (291) and 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 4, 18. Anita Pollitzer made a sketch of this work in a December 1916 letter to O'Keeffe, having seen it at 291 '. . . on the walls –– nearest to his (Alfred Stieglitz) back room'(*Lovingly Georgia* [1990], p. 222). ''Blue Lines' was first done with charcoal. Then there were probably five or six paintings of it with black watercolor [see cat. no. 63] before I got to this painting with blue watercolor that seemed right\" (*Georgia O'Keeffe* [1976], unpaginated text accompanying entry 1). Mentioned in 1934 New York (An American Place) exhibition review in *New York Times* (February 1934). Reproduced and titled *Abstraction No. 11* in *The Meeting of East and West* (1947). See cat. nos. 62,63. 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