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Oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 10 inches
CR No. 454
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.6
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Vertical canvas of lush green leaves of corn. An aerial view of the top of a corn stalk, with two main diagonally unfolding leaves curving out and away from the center of the stalk. Leaves tinged with yellow and blue-green, fluidly expanding over the hints of a pinkish background.
CR No. 454
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Corn, No. 2
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Corn
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
Corn – No. 2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
Corn 2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
Corn No. II
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Corn II
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher:
- "F / K 27" (unidentified hand, green ink)
- "greenish / whitewood [drawing of frame and two illegible words] 10 x 27" (George Of, graphite)
- "O #11" (George Of, black crayon) Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe - 1924" (white paint) Backing:
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "Corn - 1924 / (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York", black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2003–2004
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Phillips Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2008–2009
Portland Museum of Art (Maine)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2011–2012
2018–2019
2008–2009
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
San Jose Museum of Art
2016–2017
1997–1998
1998–1999
Estate of the artist, 1986; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993; The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share) (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/4/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
20
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