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Georgia O'Keeffe
Seaweed No. II, 1920
Courtesy of High Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR324_seaweed-no-ii_863541.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Seaweed No. II, 1920
Watercolor on paper, 18 5/8 x 12 3/8 inches
CR No. 324
High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Gift of Lily Friedlander
Watercolor on paper, 18 5/8 x 12 3/8 inches
Collection:High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Gift of Lily Friedlander
CR No. 324

A cluster of seaweed in shades of burgundy, dark green, pink, and gray sits in the center of the composition, surrounded by plain white paper. The varying varieties of seaweed are all delicately painted and intertwine with one another.

CR No. 324

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Seaweed No. II

Source of title: label printed by O'Keeffe (white).

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Seaweed II

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. Work inspired by first of several visits O'Keeffe made to York Beach, Maine, in the 1920s. See cat. nos. 325, 326, 381–387, 440, 441, 604. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Lynes publication dates this work as 1920. High Museum of Art dates it as 1922. (Source: Information provided for Access O'Keeffe from High Museum of Art, 2025)

Inscriptions

Backing: "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Watercolor

Materials

Watercolor on paper

Extended Medium Description

Watercolor on moderately thick, cream, rough wove paper; Watermark: ANCNE MANUFRE CANSON & MONTGOLFIER VIDALON-LES-ANNONAY A LAVIS
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)

Private collection, Harper Woods, Minnesota, purchase, 1976; Frank E. Fowler, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, c. 1976; (Helene Wasserman Fine Art, New York, NY); Joshua Strychalski, New York, NY, 1977; Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York, NY, 1977; Joshua Strychalski, New York, NY, 1980; (Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 6/10/2026

Last verified by current collection Oct 18 2025

Source System ID

8431

Other IDs

324, Catalogue Raisonné