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Georgia O'Keeffe
The Cliff Chimneys, 1938
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Georgia O'Keeffe
The Cliff Chimneys, 1938
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
CR No. 955
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1998.85
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1998.85
CR No. 955

CR No. 955

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

The Cliff Chimneys

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1939 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing:

  1. "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink)
  2. "The Cliff Chimneys / 1938" (Andrew Droth, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

[1] (Doris Bry, New York, New York, USA). [2] 1969, private collection (San Antonio, Texas, USA). [3] December 10, 1970, purchased at auction through (Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA) by the artist [1887–1986] (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA); [4] 1986, estate of the artist [1887–1986] (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA); [5] 1993, Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation (Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA); [6] 1998, purchased by Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) and gift to Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
NOTES:
[1], [2], [3], [4], [5] Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999), p. 597, cat. 955. See also Sotheby Parke-Bernet, December 10, 1970 [auction catalogue] (New York: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 1970), lot 55.
[6] Documentation in MAM object file
(Source: MAM, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Milwaukee Art Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 15 2025

Source System ID

588

Other IDs

955, Catalogue Raisonné