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Georgia O'Keeffe
Corn, No. 2, 1924
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR454_corn-no-2_786506.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Corn, No. 2, 1924
Oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 10 inches
CR No. 454
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.6
Oil on canvas, 27 1/4 x 10 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.6
CR No. 454

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:

  1. "F / K 27" (unidentified hand, green ink)
  2. "greenish / whitewood [drawing of frame and two illegible words] 10 x 27" (George Of, graphite)
  3. "O #11" (George Of, black crayon) Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe - 1924" (white paint) Backing:
  4. OK {5star} (graphite)
  5. "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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

20

Other IDs

454, Catalogue Raisonné