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Georgia O'Keeffe
Nature Forms – Gaspé, 1932
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Nature Forms – Gaspé, 1932
Oil on canvas, 10 1/4 x 24 inches
CR No. 819
L.1998.7.4
Oil on canvas, 10 1/4 x 24 inches
Collection:Private Collection
L.1998.7.4
CR No. 819

Very intricate horizontal abstraction of wave-like swirls in white and blue in a rushing rippling sea of olive green tendons and teal veins. The dominant spiraling eddy of white is in the upper middle right, while the main thrust of the olive green flows from upper left across to lower right.

CR No. 819

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Nature Forms – Gaspé

Source of title: backing inscription 1, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

The Wave

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Nature Forms, Gaspe

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Abiquiú Notebooks notes inscriptions 1,2. Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates "On back: Alfred Stieglitz handwriting, "An American Place/509 Madison Aven./NY/Georgia O'Keeffe" [not verified]. Backing inscription 1, Downtown Gallery Archive, date 1931. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1932. Dated 1932 on basis of the trips O'Keeffe made to Canada in June and August 1932. Pictured in 1933 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 54. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing:

  1. "Nature Forms— Gaspe —31" (graphite)
  2. OK {5star} (graphite)
  3. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe"
  4. Stamp: "Georgia O'Keeffe / An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York — N.Y." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Estate of the artist (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Private Collection*

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

166

Other IDs

819, Catalogue Raisonné