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Georgia O'Keeffe
No. 22 – Special, 1916–1917
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
No. 22 – Special, 1916–1917
Oil on board, 13 1/8 x 17 1/4 inches
CR No. 160
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.16
Oil on board, 13 1/8 x 17 1/4 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.16
CR No. 160

Colorful painting of reddish orange hill , the peak of which is haloed by greenish blue that fades to dark cobalt black.

CR No. 160

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

No. 22 – Special

Source of title: verso inscription 1.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Special No. 22

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Special XXII
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

Special XXII
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. verso inscription and Abiquiú Notebooks date 1916. Completed after August move to Texas. Pictured in 1917 New York (291) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 10. See cat. nos. 135–59, 161, 162. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso:

  1. "From 2nd 291 Exhibition / No 22 -- 1916 -- Special" (graphite)
  2. OK (star symbol in cat.raisonné) (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on board

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 7/22/2026

Source System ID

46

Other IDs

160, Catalogue Raisonné