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Georgia O'Keeffe
Blue No. IV, 1916
Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR94_blue-no-iv_863514.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Blue No. IV, 1916
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 15 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches
CR No. 94
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 15 15/16 x 10 15/16 inches
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
CR No. 94

Two rounded forms, dark blue outside and fading to white at their centers, occupy the center of the composition. In the lower righthand corner, three blue brushstrokes move diagonally across the page.

CR No. 94

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Blue No. IV

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title

Blue #4

Source of title: Brooklyn Museum.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Blue #4
Georgia O'Keeffe: Art, Image, Style, 2017, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold by Halpert, April 1958." Missing label recorded in museum files: "Blue No IV/1916/watercolor, 11 x 16." Completed in Virginia before August move to Texas. Pictured in 1917 New York (291) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 4. See cat. nos. 91–93. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Watercolor

Materials

Watercolor and graphite on paper

Extended Medium Description

Watercolor and graphite on very thin, beige, very smooth laid paper, Japanese gampi (Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)

Until 1958 Downtown Gallery (The), New York, N.Y., then Purchased by Brooklyn Museum (The) (Source: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection 2025

Source System ID

8289

Other IDs

94, 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 Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2025.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

Good

CONDITION NARRATIVE
  • Paper is heavily cockled and wrinkled.
  • Shadows of hinges visible at top.
  • Bottom left corner bends upwards.
  • There are scattered slightly brown inclusions scattered throughout the paper
  • Thicker areas of paint have network cracking but are stable Frame is in very good condition.