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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Series I – No. 3, 1918
Couresty of Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Series I – No. 3, 1918
Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches
CR No. 254
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1997.192
Oil on board, 20 x 16 inches
Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation M1997.192
CR No. 254

CR No. 254

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Series I – No. 3

Source of title: backing inscription 2.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Series I, No. 3
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. Completed after June move to New York. The identity of "Helen Freeman," the name on the mounting board, is unknown; possibly she was a potential buyer for the picture. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso: "Return this" [three lines of illegible writing pertaining to framing] (George Of, graphite). Mounting board: "Stieglitz Exhibition / Anderson Galleries / 1923 / Helen Freeman / 41A" (unidentified hand, graphite). Backing: 1. "{5star} / For OK to sign" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink) 2. "Series I – No. 3 – 1918 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black crayon) 3. "Stieglitz #2" (George Of, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on board

Extended Medium Description

Beaver Board is specified in the Lynes publication.

[1] Estate of the artist [1887–1986] (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA); [2] 1993, Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation (Abiquiu, New Mexico, USA); [3] December 26, 1997, purchased by Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) and gift to Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
NOTES:
[1], [2] Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; Abiquiu, NM: The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999), p. 137, cat. 254.
[3] Agreement in MAM object file
(Source: MAM, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Milwaukee Art Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 15 2025

Source System ID

8377

Other IDs

254, Catalogue Raisonné