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Oil on canvas, 35 x 29 15/16 inches
CR No. 258
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Emily Fisher Landau in honor of Tom Armstrong
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CR No. 258
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Music, Pink and Blue No. 2
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pink
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "See gallery photograph 2–b." Abiquiú Notebooks notes Pan American Federation of Arts label and indicates, "Back: Initials and star" [not verified]. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1919. Backing inscription dates 1918. Dated 1918 on basis of similarities to cat. nos. 256, 257. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 13. Titled No. 2 – Music – Pink – Blue by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph; reproduced and titled Painting in Playboy (July 1924). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: 1. "#3 pull back / cut out" (unidentified hand, graphite) 2. "WW" (unidentified hand, black ink). Backing: 1. "Pink No 2 / Georgia O'Keeffe / Geo. F. Of / 274 Madison Avenue New York" (Alfred Stieglitz, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts label, black ink) 2. "Georgia O'Keeffe No. 4 / Pink" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS/ EXHIBITION OF WORK SHOWING THE LATER/ TENDENCIES IN ART/ 1921/ TO BE/ DETACHED AND FIXED ON BACK OF WORK/ TITLE Pink No 2/ artist Georgia O'Keeffe/ RETURN ADDRESS Geo. F. of/ 274 Madison Avenue, New York
On stretcher bar upper left in graphite [horizontal orientation]: #3 Peel Back/ Cell Out
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: Two Lives: O'Keeffe and Stieglitz / #16 / Georgia O'Keeffe / Music - Pink and Blue, II / Crate 1 / * / * / * /
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
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)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2007–2008
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
1919-1984 collection of the artist; 1984-1991 collection of Emily Fisher Landau, New York, New York (sold through the artist); 1991 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (gift of Emily Fisher Landau)
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 15 2025
Source System ID
8381
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