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Georgia O'Keeffe
Blue Line, 1919
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Blue Line, 1919
Oil on canvas, 20 3/16 x 17 1/8 inches
CR No. 294
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.4
Oil on canvas, 20 3/16 x 17 1/8 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.4
CR No. 294

Vertical canvas of mostly grey-blue tones with some distinct lines of strong color. General shape is that of a "U", dominated in the center by a vertical blue line. In the lower portion ribbons of greyish pink, blue-green, grey-blue curtain-like lines pull to meet in the middle creating the "U" shape out of which the delicate blue line rises. The upper portion radiates from light closest to the blue line blending out to the darkest part of the painting in the upper left & right corners.

CR No. 294

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Blue Line

Source of title: stretcher inscription 1.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, Inscription 2 dates 1919 and indicates no. 63 in 1923 New York (Anderson). "303, in The Anderson Galleries building. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 19, 20. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher:

  1. "303 / Blue Line" (graphite)
  2. "63 / 1919" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite)
  3. "Georgia O'Keeffe / 114 E. 59" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

The Burnett Foundation (partial share), 1996; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1993; Estate of the artist, 1986 (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

18

Other IDs

294, Catalogue Raisonné