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Charcoal on paper, 24 3/4 x 19 inches
CR No. 54
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The Menil Collection, Houston
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Several undulating black lines run diagonally from the bottom left to the center-right edge of the composition. Running parallel to these lines is a strip of dark gray punctuated by small black rectangles. Light gray, billowing forms dominate the upper half of the composition, punctuated by soft, darker gray shapes that resemble drops of water.
CR No. 54
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
No. 9 Special
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks indicates lost inscription on original backing, 'Back: 'No. 9 Special.' star.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Special #9
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Special No. 9
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks. (Used by the Menil Collection.)
General Remarks
Back: A.S.: '1915–1916.' Shown: Photo Sucession Gallery, 1915 1916? {'1915' crossed out} . . .Note: Date of painting in doubt. 'Not recorded Whitney Archive. O'Keeffe wrote: 'Drawing No. 9 is the drawing of a headache. It was a very bad headache at the time that I was busy drawing every night, sitting on the floor in front of the closet door'(Some Memories of Drawings [1988], unpaginated). Titled Special No. 9 by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 18. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Verso: "#2" (unidentified hand, graphite, probably AS) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Drawing
Materials
Charcoal on paper
Extended Medium Description
Charcoal on moderately thick, cream, slightly textured laid paper; Watermark: Blind stamp at corner, STRATHMORE with thistle
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1992–1993
The Phillips Collection (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
IBM Gallery of Science and Art (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
1998
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2004–2005
Boise Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Hunter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Fresno Metropolitan Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
University of Michigan, Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Georgia O'Keeffe, until 1985; Purchased from the above (represented by Robert Miller Gallery, New York) through Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston by the Menil Foundation, Houston, 1985-present
(Source: The Menil Collection, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Aug 18 2025
Source System ID
8254
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