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Watercolor on paper, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
CR No. 63
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.1
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Vertical watercolor on paper of very simple calligraphic black thin lines. There is a thick stroke along the bottom edge, with two delicate lines growing out. The one on the right traverses across the page through the middle to the top. The other on the left follows closely parallel up the page till the middle, where it makes a backwards N shape off to the left.
CR No. 63
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Black Lines
Source of title: Doris Bry label.
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive. Downtown Gallery Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks. Completed in new York before June move to Virginia. See cat. nos. 62,64. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Watercolor
Materials
Watercolor on paper
Extended Medium Description
Watercolor on medium thick, cream, moderately textured laid paper; Watermark: MBM (FRANCE) Ingres d'Arches
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Yokohama Museum of Art
1998–1999
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Dallas Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2000
2000–2001
2008–2009
Portland Museum of Art (Maine)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Phillips Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2010–2011
2011–2012
2016
2019
2019–2020
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Centre Georges Pompidou
Fondation Beyeler
2026–2028
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Private collection, New York, N.Y., 1949 (Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Andrew Crispo, New York, N.Y., 1979 Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 7064, lot no. 149, 3 December 1997 (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
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Version History
Core fields last updated 7/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
149
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