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Georgia O'Keeffe
Banyan Tree, 1934
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Banyan Tree, 1934
Graphite on paper, 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
CR No. 839
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.140
Graphite on paper, 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.140
CR No. 839

Vertical graphite drawing of large, multi-limbed banyan tree with window and shutter, roof detail and column lightly drawn in background.

CR No. 839

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Banyan Tree

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1940s. Dated 1934 on basis of Stieglitz–O'Keeffe correspondence. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe 32 or 33" (graphite) Backing: "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Drawing

Materials

Graphite on paper

Extended Medium Description

Graphite on moderately thick, cream, slightly textured wove paper
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)

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 5/20/2026

Source System ID

1211

Other IDs

839, Catalogue Raisonné