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It Was Yellow & Pink I, 1959
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Georgia O'Keeffe
It Was Yellow & Pink I, 1959
Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches
CR No. 1354
Oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 1354

A large, twisting band of pink runs in an S-shape over a brown background, like a river seen from above. Smaller pink lines resembling tributaries converge and split from the larger form.

CR No. 1354

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

It Was Yellow & Pink I

Source of title: backing inscription, Downtown Gallery Archive.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

It Was Yellow And Pink I

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. Titled It Was Yellow and Pink – I by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. See cat. no. 1960. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "It Was Yellow & Pink I / 1960 {crossed out} 1959 (crossing out and '1959' by Doris Bry, black ink) / Oil on canvas / 30 x 26 / canvas"(Label: printed, O'Keeffe (red-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

10299

Other IDs

1354, Catalogue Raisonné