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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Untitled (Dead Rabbit With Copper Pot), 1908
Image: okeeffe_CR39_untitled-dead-rabbit-with-copper-pot_713590.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Untitled (Dead Rabbit With Copper Pot), 1908
Oil on canvas, 19 x 23 1/2 inches
CR No. 39
The Art Students League of New York, Gift of the artist
Oil on canvas, 19 x 23 1/2 inches
The Art Students League of New York, Gift of the artist
CR No. 39

In this still-life painting, a dead rabbit with white and gray fur sits on a plain brown surface. A copper pot sits next to the rabbit. Both objects contrast with a dark brown background.

CR No. 39

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Untitled (Dead Rabbit With Copper Pot)

Source of title: image.

Alternate Title

Dead Rabbit and Copper Pot

Source of title: Art Students League of New York.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso: "O'Keeffe" (black paint) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Scholarship exchange / Gift the artist
(Source: The Art Student's League of New York, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 17 2025

Source System ID

8241

Other IDs

39, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by The Art Students League of New York in 2025.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

Support: Medium-weight cotton canvas over commercial wood stretcher. O’Keeffe signed the canvas verso with black oil paint. There is a patch in the middle of the canvas from an older repair, visible from the verso.

Ground/Support Preparation: No ground/primer layer visible

Design Layers: No underdrawings visible

Surface Coating: moderately thick glossy varnish

Framing, Backing, and Hanging Hardware: Work is framed in a rustic, gilded rectangular frame with a coroplast backing screwed into the stretcher bars. There are d-rings and wire for hanging.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

The work is complete and in overall good condition. There is moderate craquelure throughout the painting, primarily in the center, with minor paint loss surrounding the cracks. There is slight canvas swelling/building in the ULQ. The canvas edges are lightly separating from the frame; the work and frame are stable but will need reinforced in the future. The canvas is taut, and the work is planar overall. There was a previous repair in the center of the canvas, visible on the verso. The edges of forms are often defined by raised linear brush work at the margins of the forms. These sometimes fracture and flake as a result of canvas deflection/excursion in transit and should be monitored for cracks and losses after transit.