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Georgia O'Keeffe
Roof with Snow, 1916
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Roof with Snow, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches
CR No. 126
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
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches
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
CR No. 126

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.)

Purchased from Georgia O’Keeffe (Source: Amarillo Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Amarillo Museum of Art

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 11/6/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 23 2025

Source System ID

7418

Other IDs

126, Catalogue Raisonné