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Oil on canvas, 9 x 7 inches
CR No. 558
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.19
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Small vertical canvas in purple, maroon, bluish-grey and white tones - very fluid and ruffled forms with a dominate dark purplish maroon circle in the center right, intercepted on the left by an undulating rippled fanlike shape in white and grey.
CR No. 558
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
The Black Iris
Source of title: stretcher inscription 1.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
The Dark Iris No. II
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Dark Iris
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946.... No Signature....On backing: Label, 1927 exh. at Intimate Gal" [notes inscription 3]. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "On backing: By O'Keeffe, 'Dark Iris –– Small'/1926. [not verified] Initials [not verified]. Information from O'Keeffe; Sold to Mrs. Carleton H. Palmer; from Palmer to Reinhardt Gal.: from Reinhardt to O'Keeffe." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Note: sold by Downtown Gallery." . (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher:
- "The Black Iris 1926 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink)
- "Georgia O'Keeffe -- 1926" (black ink)
- "by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: printed, The Intimate Gallery, black ink [label cut off]) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1992–1993
The Phillips Collection (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
IBM Gallery of Science and Art (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
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)
2008–2009
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2018–2019
2016–2017
1954
(Alfred Stieglitz, New York, N.Y.) Mrs. Carlton H. Palmer, New York, N.Y., 1920s (Reinhardt Galleries, New York, N.Y.), unknown The artist, purchase, 1933 (The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Mr. and Mrs. John Denman, Bellevue, Wash., 1950 (A. J. Kollar, Fine Paintings, Seattle, WA.), 1989 (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.) Private collection, Washington, D.C., 1989 (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.) (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
148
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