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Oil on canvas, 27 x 23 inches
CR No. 287
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Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe for the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1987
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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:
- "19 – Streak" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "Red & Orange Streak 19 / 1919 / Oil / 27 x 23 / canvas / No photo" (OKR, black ink)
- Orange & Black Red {"Black" crossed out} / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (AS, graphite)
- ". . . 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
1966
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
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)
1998
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)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
In the artist's collection; The Georgia O'Keeffe Estate, 1986; bequest to PMA, 1987
(Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection Aug 06 2025
Source System ID
8402
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.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.
"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).
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