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Georgia O'Keeffe
Music – Pink and Blue No. I, 1918
Courtesy of Seattle Art Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Music – Pink and Blue No. I, 1918
Oil on canvas, 35 x 29 inches
CR No. 257
Gift of Barney A. Ebsworth
Oil on canvas, 35 x 29 inches
Collection:Seattle Art Museum
Gift of Barney A. Ebsworth
CR No. 257

Overlapping white forms that resemble gathered fabric arch elegantly over an expanse of bright blue background.

CR No. 257

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Music – Pink and Blue No. I

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Music – Pink, Blue No. I

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Music, Pink and Blue #1

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Back: O'Keeffe writing: 'Pink #1, 1918 o/c'" [not verified]. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 14. Downtown Gallery Archive, Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1919. Dated 1918 on basis of similarities to cat. nos. 256, 258. Titled Pink & Blue by Stieglitz on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Signed on reverse with the artist's monogram and star. (Source: Seattle Art Museum, 2025)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

The artist, through 1974; sold through Doris Bry, New York, to Barney Ebsworth, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1974; by gift to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2000 (Source: Seattle Art Museum, 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

8380

Other IDs

257, Catalogue Raisonné