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Georgia O'Keeffe
From a Day with Juan A, 1976–1977
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR1628_from-a-day-with-juan-a_789792.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
From a Day with Juan A, 1976–1977
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 1628
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.483
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.483
CR No. 1628

A large light-colored form fills much of the canvas as it rises into the blue sky. The sky is visible along the upper edge of the work. The form lightens in color as it ascends.

CR No. 1628

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

From a Day with Juan A

Source of title: backing inscription 2.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. Inscriptions 1, 3, 4 indicate preparatory work. Part of a series: see cat. nos. 1619–23, 1625–31. Painted with assistance of Belarmino Lopez. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing:

  1. "12/62/GOK" (graphite)
  2. "From a Day with Juan A" (Juan Hamilton, graphite)
  3. "12/16/61" (unidentified hand, black ink)
  4. "2/ 1/22/59" (unidentified hand, red crayon) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Estate of the artist, 1986
Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 1993
Gift to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2006
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

1069

Other IDs

1628, Catalogue Raisonné