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Georgia O'Keeffe
Abstraction White, 1927
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR571_abstraction-white_789785.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Abstraction White, 1927
Oil on canvas, 34 x 14 inches
CR No. 571
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.20
Oil on canvas, 34 x 14 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.20
CR No. 571

Vertical canvas of mostly white, grey, and black. A diagonal line from the upper right to the lower left divides the canvas, and a second diagonal line starts in the middle of the first and goes from left to lower right ending in the middle of the bottom of the canvas. A dark black area follows the lines of the diagonals on the right, blending out into grey and back to white.

CR No. 571

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Abstraction White

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, backing inscription 2, 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery–O'Keeffe) exhibition checklist.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

White Abstraction

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Abstraction, White

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Abstraction, White
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946" [notes inscription 2]. Abiquiú Notebooks notes inscription 2 and indicates, "Back: O'Keeffe: Initials and star." Pictured in 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery) Norman installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 29A. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: "OKeeffe#5" (unidentified hand, graphite) Backing:

  1. OK {5star} (graphite)
  2. "Catalogue#35 / Exhibition 1928 / Abstraction White 1927 / by Georgia O'Keeffe / Vault I 1484" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

[----] 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 3/30/2026

Source System ID

145

Other IDs

571, Catalogue Raisonné