Skip to main content
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Brooklyn Bridge, 1949
Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR1172_brooklyn-bridge_863520.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Brooklyn Bridge, 1949
Oil on board, 47 15/16 x 35 7/8 inches
CR No. 1172
Bequest of Mary Childs Draper
Oil on board, 47 15/16 x 35 7/8 inches
Bequest of Mary Childs Draper
CR No. 1172

The Brooklyn Bridge's two pointed arches offer a view of the blue sky beyond. The bridge's towers, painted solid black, frame the arches. Cables arch across the composition, creating checkerboard patterns on the visible patches of sky.

CR No. 1172

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Brooklyn Bridge

Source of title: Recto inscription.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on board

Downtown Gallery Archive, N.Y.C. until 1958, Mary Childs Draper, Brooklyn until 1977, Brooklyn Museum, 1977 (Source: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Last verified by current collection 2025

Source System ID

10180

Other IDs

1172, Catalogue Raisonné