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Georgia O'Keeffe
The White Place – A Memory, 1943
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Georgia O'Keeffe
The White Place – A Memory, 1943
Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches
CR No. 1062
L.2012.1.1
Oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches
Collection:Private Collection
L.2012.1.1
CR No. 1062

The White Place - A Memory, 1943.

CR No. 1062

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

The White Place – A Memory

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1943 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

The White Place, A Memory

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Information from O'Keeffe, May 3, 1946. Painted 1943." Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "not finished." Whitney Archive indicates, "In the country (I suppose at Lake George)." O'Keeffe wrote: "Today painted a new "White Place" — out of my head" (O'Keeffe to Maria Chabot, 13 March 1943). See cat. no. 1939. "In the country" probably means that the work was stored at Lake George in 1946, when Irvine was compiling the catalogue. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 6/10/2026

Source System ID

597

Other IDs

1062, Catalogue Raisonné