Skip to main content
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
A Piece of Wood I, 1942
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR1030_a-piece-of-wood-i_786539.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
A Piece of Wood I, 1942
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches
CR No. 1030
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.25
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.25
CR No. 1030

Vertical canvas of brown tones with small spiraling circle in the center, followed by concentric ovals filling out to the edges of the canvas.

CR No. 1030

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

A Piece of Wood I

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

A Piece of Wood – I

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Piece of Wood #2

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks notes backing inscription. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "A Piece of Wood - I / by Georgia O'Keeffe 1942" (Andrew Droth, Label: printed, An American Place black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Doris Bry, New York, NY; Joan T. Washburn, New York, NY (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/4/2026

Source System ID

143

Other IDs

1030, Catalogue Raisonné