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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Lines, 1916
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Lines, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
CR No. 63
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.1
Watercolor on paper, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.1
CR No. 63

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.)

(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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 7/22/2026

Source System ID

149

Other IDs

63, Catalogue Raisonné