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Georgia O'Keeffe
Red & Orange Streak/Streak, 1919
Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR287_red-and-orange-streak-streak_857721.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Red & Orange Streak/Streak, 1919
Oil on canvas, 27 x 23 inches
CR No. 287
Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe for the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1987
Oil on canvas, 27 x 23 inches
Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe for the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1987
CR No. 287

A bright red, yellow, and orange form arches from the upper right to the lower left of the composition. The shape contrasts with a dark, landscape-like background in shades of black and dark green. On the upper third of the composition, a horizontal strip of vibrant red, resembling a mountain range, spans the width of the canvas.

CR No. 287

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Red & Orange Streak/Streak

Source of title: backing inscriptions, 1, 3.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Orange & Red

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

Yellow and Red

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

Red Yellow and Black Streak

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

Orange and Red Streak

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

No. 46 Orange and Red Streak

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title

Red and Orange Streak

Source of title: Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Orange and Red Streak
O'Keeffe and Texas, 1998, McNay Art Museum (San Antonio)

General Remarks

Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946.... On backing: Written by O'Keeffe, title and date as above [Red Yellow and Black Streak]" [not verified]. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive date 1922. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1919 and indicates, "Incorrectly classified as 1922." Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) and 1935 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 15, 58. O'Keeffe wrote: "From the Plains [see cat. no. 288] and Orange and Red Streak were painted in New York months after I left that wide world [Texas]. The cattle in the pens lowing for the calves day and night was a sound that has always haunted me. It had a regular rhythmic beat like the old Penitente songs, repeating the same rhythms over and over all through the day and night. It was loud and raw under the stars in that wide empty country" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated text accompanying entry 3). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing:

  1. "19 – Streak" (graphite)
  2. OK {5star} (graphite)
  3. "Red & Orange Streak 19 / 1919 / Oil / 27 x 23 / canvas / No photo" (OKR, black ink)
  4. Orange & Black Red {"Black" crossed out} / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (AS, graphite)
  5. ". . . Orange Yellow & Red {"Yellow" crossed out} / [illegible] O'Keeffe" (AS, graphite, inscription is partially obscured by label) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

In the artist's collection; The Georgia O'Keeffe Estate, 1986; bequest to PMA, 1987
(Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 4/22/2026

Last verified by current collection Aug 06 2025

Source System ID

8402

Other IDs

287, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Published with corresponding artwork entry in Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Lynes, 1999), this historical conservation information documents treatment decisions made during the artist’s lifetime. Lynes quotes information found on backing labels, and, when noted, from other sources.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

"1963 Co-polymer Iso and N-Butyl Methacrylate 2258" (Typed); "Sprayed with acrylic resin 'Lucite 46' copolimer of n-butyl and isobutyl methacrylate 7% solution in solvent mixture xylene 75% and petroleum benzene #1 25% by E. De Beaumont, 11 second street Worcester, Mass., December 8 1960" (Fine Arts Conservation Laboratories, typed label).