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Oil on canvas, 8 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches
CR No. 315
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.3
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Small horizontal canvas with a grouping of ten apples of various colors and sizes on a white cloth. Apples fill the majority of the canvas, as in a close-up, hence color dominates most of the canvas.
CR No. 315
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Apple Family – 2
Source of title: backing inscription 1.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Apple Family II
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Apple Family II
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Apple Family II
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946....No signature [note of backing inscription 1]. Also initial. Red, green and yellow apples (10 of them – one small one at left)....See gallery photograph, 4–e. Have dated it 1921 as O'Keeffe thinks similar apples were painted about 1921." Backing inscription dates 1920? Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date c. 1921. Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1921 . Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 15. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Backing:
- "Apple Family - 2 / 20?" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
Milwaukee Art Museum (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
2003–2004
2020–2021
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
1997–1998
1998–1999
2019–2020
Estate of the artist, 1986
The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
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