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Oil on canvas, 20 3/16 x 17 1/8 inches
CR No. 294
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.4
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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:
- "303 / Blue Line" (graphite)
- "63 / 1919" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite)
- "Georgia O'Keeffe / 114 E. 59" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2024–2025
San Diego Museum of Art (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Albuquerque Museum (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Musee Des Beaux-Arts Montreal (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2010–2011
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)
2008–2009
Portland Museum of Art (Maine) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity)
2011–2012
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
2018–2019
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
2016–2017
1997–1998
1998–1999
1999–2000
The Burnett Foundation (partial share), 1996; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1993; Estate of the artist, 1986 (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
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