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Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches
CR No. 126
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Amarillo Museum of Art purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, Amarillo Area Foundation, Amarillo Art Alliance, Fannie Weymouth, Santa Fe Industries and Mary Fain
L.2016.8.3
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A deep blue, pitched roof with a few amorphous patches of pink fills the frame. A greenish blue dormer with two dark red windows sticks out from the roof, while two chimneys jut into the gray sky.
CR No. 126
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Roof with Snow
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title
Roof with Snow – Study Sketch
Source of title: Amarillo Museum of Art.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Whitney Mus. May 1946.... Note: probably ptd. about 1915 or 1916." Whitney Archive dates 1915. Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1916. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1917. Completed after August move to Texas. O'Keeffe frequently depicted architectural forms shortly after arriving in a new place, a pattern first noted in her work by Lisa Messinger in Georgia O'Keeffe (1988). See cat. nos. 122–25, 127. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Watercolor
Materials
Watercolor on paper
Extended Medium Description
Watercolor on moderately thick, cream, smooth wove paper with a slightly fuzzy feel (Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)
1946–1947
Whitney Museum of American Art
University of Michigan, Museum of Art
Springfield Museums
Delaware Art Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Phillips Memorial Gallery
New Orleans Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Minnesota Museum of American Art
Columbus Museum of Art
Munson Museum
Smith College Museum of Art
1958
1962–1963
Whitney Museum of American Art
Institute of Contemporary Art
Munson Museum
Saint Louis Art Museum
Columbus College of Art and Design
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
1966
1996–1997
1998
2004–2005
Boise Art Museum
Hunter Museum of American Art
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Fresno Metropolitan Museum
University of Michigan, Museum of Art
Purchased from Georgia O’Keeffe (Source: Amarillo Museum of Art, 2025)
© Amarillo Museum of Art
Version History
Core fields last updated 11/6/2026
Last verified by current collection Dec 23 2025
Source System ID
7418
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