{"classified_as":[{"_id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300033799","label":"oil paintings (visual works)","type":"Type"},{"_id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300033618","label":"paintings (visual works)","type":"Type"},{"_label":"Collection Item","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404024","type":"Type"}],"id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/object/8644","identified_by":[{"classified_as":[{"_label":"catalogue raisonnée number","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026061"}],"content":"574","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"repository number","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404621"}],"content":"8644","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"non-preferred identifiers","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264273"}],"content":"574, Catalogue Raisonné","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"preferred term","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404670"}],"content":"Black Abstraction","type":"Name"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"non-preferred identifiers","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264273"}],"content":{"alternate-title-1999-catalogue-raisonne":{"titles":[{"notes":"","title":"Abstraction Black","type":"alternate-title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}],"type":"alternate-title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"},"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne":{"titles":[{"notes":"Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1933 New York (An American Place) and 1941 (An American Place–October) exhibition checklists.","title":"Black Abstraction","type":"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}],"type":"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}},"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":"Measurement Description","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/measurement_description"}],"content":"30 x 40 1/4 inches","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Title and Date","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_title_date"}],"content":"Black Abstraction, 1927","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Medium and Dimensions","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_medium_dims"}],"content":"Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 1/4 inches","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":"credit line","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026687"}],"content":"Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1969","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"cr_remarks_1999","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/cr_remarks_1999"}],"content":["Inscriptions in Metropolitan Museum of Art files: OK ☆{5star} (graphite); \"'Black Abstraction'/by/Georgia O'Keeffe\" (Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place, black ink). Whitney Archive indicates, \"See gallery photograph. Infor. from Miss Bry (An Amer. Place) July 1949: On permanent loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Georgia O'Keeffe as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Coll.\" Pictured in 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery) Norman installation photograph, Appendix III, figure 29A. O'Keeffe wrote: \"I was on a stretcher in a large room, two nurses hovering over me, a very large bright skylight above me. I had decided to be conscious as long as possible. . . . the skylight began to whirl and slowly became smaller and smaller in a black space. I lifted my right arm overhead and dropped it. As the skylight became a small white dot in the black room, I lifted my left arm over my head. As it started to drop and the white dot became very small, I was gone. A few weeks later all this became the *Black Abstraction*\" (*Georgia O'Keeffe* [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 54). Reproduced and titled *Abstraction – Black* in *America \u0026 Alfred Stieglitz* (1934). (Source: Lynes, 1999)"],"type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Copyright","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_copyright"}],"content":"© Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"selected_references","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/selected_references"}],"content":"Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Norman, Paul Rosenfeld, and Harold Rugg, ed. America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait. Garden City, N. Y., 1934, pl. XXID, as \"Abstration–Black\". \n \nJames Thrall Soby in New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century. Ed. John I. H. Baur. Greenwich, Conn., 1957, ill. p. 108. \n \nPeter Plagens. \"A Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective in Texas.\" Artforum 4 (May 1966), p. 29, ill. \n \nDorothy Seiberling. \"Horizons of a Pioneer: Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico.\" Life 64 (March 1, 1968), pp. 9, 40–41, ill. \n \nGeorge Heard Hamilton. \"The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.\" Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), p. 392. \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, text facing pl. 54, ill. \n \nLaurie Lisle. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1980, pp. 184, 357. \n \nKathleen Howard, ed. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide. New York, 1983, p. 416, no. 13, ill. (color). \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. \"Georgia O'Keeffe.\" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), pp. 23–25, 60, ill. \n \nJan Garden Castro. The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1985, p. 102. \n \nMichael Desmond in 20th Century Masters from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Exh. cat., Australian National Gallery. Canberra, 1986, p. 56, ill. (color). \n \nLaurie Lisle. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Albuquerque, 1986, pp. 136, 299. \n \nVera Graaf. \"Georgia O'Keefes Leben.\" Du no. 5 (May 1987), pp. 16–18, ill. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 42, 44–45, ill. (1989 ed., same pagination). \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes. O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1989, p. 342 n. 8. \n \nRoxana Robinson. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. New York, 1989, p. 300. \n \nChristopher Merrill and Ellen Bradbury, ed. From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O'Keeffe as Icon. Reading, Mass., 1992, pp. 61–62, 101, fig. 3. \n \nAlexandra Arrowsmith Thomas West, ed. Two Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz; a Conversation in Paintings and Photographs. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. New York, 1992, p. 17. \n \nElizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1993, pp. 77–79, ill. \n \nCharles Child Eldredge. Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London. New Haven, 1993, p. 25. \n \nMaria Costantino. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1994, p. 29. \n \nJula Dech. Georgia O'Keeffe: Gemälde. Munich, 1995, pl. 8. \n \nBram Dijkstra. Georgia O'Keeffe and the Eros of Place. Princeton, 1998, pp. 228–29, 231, fig. 68. \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 1, p. 330, no. 574, ill., vol. 2, p. 1117, app. 3, fig. 29A. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2001, pp. 95, 97, 99, fig. 64. \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman. O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. New York, 2001, p. 169 (app. 2: \"Works Given to Institutions during the Artist's Lifetime\"). \n \nHunter Drohojowska-Philp. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 2004, p. 276, pl. between pp. 376 and 377. \n \nJanet Souter. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2005, p. 26, fig. 22 (incorrect orientation). \n \nWanda Corn. \"Telling Tales: Georgia O'Keeffe on Georgia O'Keeffe.\" American Art 23 (Summer 2009), p. 69, fig. 12. \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, 200, 279–80, no. 184, 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, p. 669. \n \nJoachim Homann in Joachim Homann. Night Vision: Noctures in American Art, 1860-1960. Exh. cat., Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Brunswick, Me., 2015, pp. 139–41, 149, 171, colorpl. 63. \n \nSophie Bernard in Georgia O'Keeffe et ses amis photographes. Exh. cat., Musée de Grenoble. Grenoble, 2015, pp. 50, 198, no. 4, fig. 30 (color), ill. pp. 66–67 (color). \n \nKatherine M. Bourguignon in Katherine M. Bourguignon Lauren Kroiz and Leo G. Mazow. America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper. Exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, England, 2018, p. 31, no. 54, ill. (color) pp. 31, 150. \n \nMarta Ruiz del Árbol. Georgia O'Keeffe. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Madrid, 2021, p. 310, no. 53, ill. (color) and ill. p. 171 (color). \n \nAdrienne Brown in Georgia O'Keeffe: \"My New Yorks\". Ed. Sarah Kelly Oehler and Annelise K. Madsen. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2024, p. 81, fig. 7 (color).","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"description statement","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416"}],"content":"A large black circle dominates the composition. At the center of the circle, a small point of white light glows. The light is situated at the meeting point between two thin white lines, one vertical and the other horizontal.","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Complete","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_complete"}],"content":"Georgia O'Keeffe. Black Abstraction, 1927. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 1/4 inches. Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1969. © Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"provenance_narrative","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/provenance_narrative"}],"content":"The artist (1927–69; 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":"Materials description","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/materials_description"}],"content":"Oil on canvas","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Artist(s)","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_artist"}],"content":"Georgia O'Keeffe","type":"LinguisticObject"}],"representation":[{"digitally_shown_by":[{"access_point":[{"id":"https://iiif.okeeffemuseum.org/image/iiif/2/824842/full/full/0/default.jpg","type":"DigitalObject"}],"classified_as":[{"_label":"Digital Image","id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300215302","type":"Type"}],"digitally_available_via":[{"access_point":[{"id":"https://iiif.okeeffemuseum.org/image/iiif/2/824842"}],"conforms_to":[{"id":"http://iiif.io/api/image","type":"InformationObject"}],"format":"application/ld+json;profile='http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json'","type":"DigitalService"}],"type":"DigitalObject"}],"type":"VisualItem"}],"type":"HumanMadeObject"}