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Georgia O'Keeffe
Nude Series, 1917
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Nude Series, 1917
Watercolor on paper, 12 x 8 15/16 inches
CR No. 186
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.13
Watercolor on paper, 12 x 8 15/16 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.13
CR No. 186

Vertical watercolor on cream background of female nude seated facing left, with right arm swings on either side and legs crossed at the knees. The figure seated on a suggestion of a pillow or rug. Nude Series: Possibly Self-Portraits etc. as noted in #176.

CR No. 186

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Nude Series

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Seated Red
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 21. See cat. no. 176. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Noted: (on back of frame) Iris & B. Gerals Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Watercolor

Materials

Watercolor on paper

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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Source System ID

27

Other IDs

186, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

Support: The work is executed on cream, moderate, textured wove paper, with a primary support mounted to a secondary one.

Design layers: The work is executed with fluid, tipped, or brushed watercolor on a dry paper support with pools of dense media.

Surface Coating: There is no varnish on this work's surface.

Framing, Backing, and Hanging Hardware: The frame is whitewashed maple with secondary basswood backing strainer and Optium AR acrylic Amiran Single layer optically coated glass. There is an 8-ply Rising Rag window with a 4-ply backing mat taped to the glazing. There is an acid-free FC Board and/or Microchamber corrugated insulated backing.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

The work is planar overall, with only a few isolated lifted edges. Areas of dense paint application and pooling have aggregated, fine, cupped craquelure of thick glossy paint that is susceptible to cleaving and flaking, as well as pinpoint losses. All paints in these areas have been examined and are currently stable. The paper support has numerous fibers and other inclusions. A drip has been blotted from the surface near the lower center. There is some burnishing of the surface around this drip stain.