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Charcoal on paper, 19 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches
CR No. 280
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.15
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Charcoal drawing of two distinct dark lines that run down the center of the paper. Peeping out of these lines are two small dark half spheres, as if emerging from behind curtains, located in the upper center of the painting. These are the darkest of the entire composition, touched with highlights that suggest a full roundness to them.
CR No. 280
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
No. 17 – Special
Source of title: backing inscription 1.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Special #17
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Special No. 17
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Special XVII
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Special XVII
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Special XVII
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Special XVII
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks notes backing inscriptions1, 2 Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 22. O'Keeffe wrote: "No comments, please" (Some Memories of Drawings [1988], unpaginated). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Backing:
- "No. 17 - 1919 - / Special" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphie) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Drawing
Materials
Charcoal on paper
Extended Medium Description
Charcoal on moderately thick, cream, moderately textured laid paper
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Yokohama Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
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
2011
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph)
Columbus Museum of Art (as Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph)
2024–2025
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
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)
2018–2019
1997–1998
1998–1999
Estate of the artist, 1986
The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1993
The Burnett Foundation, 1996 (partial share)
Gift to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
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