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Oil on canvas, 34 x 14 inches
CR No. 571
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.20
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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:
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "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
1999–2002
2003–2004
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2024–2025
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
2016–2017
1998–1999
2017–2020
Brooklyn Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Reynolda House Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Peabody Essex Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
The Cleveland Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Wichita Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Nevada Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
[----] Joan T. Washburn, New York, NY (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
145
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