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Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 27 1/8 inches
CR No. 367
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A dark red building with a pitched roof stands in the center of the composition flanked by two green trees. The building rests on a yellow ground, with blue mountains and a clouded sky in the background.
CR No. 367
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
My Shanty
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title
My Shanty, Lake George
Source of title: The Phillips Collection.
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive. Stretcher inscription dates 1922 and indicates no. 54 in 1923 New York (Anderson). Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "From review: Bought by Duncan Phillips. O'Keeffe was not in a 'somber Celtic mood' [as stated by Phillips in A Collection in the Making (1926, p. 66), when she painted this –– she was merely tired of people saying she could only handle light colors and painted this to 'show the boys' that she could paint a dark picture." Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 12, 16, 20. O'Keeffe wrote: "The Shanty was beyond the farmhouse at Lake George where we lived part of the year. . . . I wanted a place to work away from the house so we fixed up the Shanty [August 1920]. . . . It had never been painted and the outside boards were scorched by the sun. The clean, clear colors were in my head, but one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty I thought, 'I can paint one of those dismal colored paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try — all low–toned and dreary with the tree beside the door'" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 33). Titled Landscape in The Arts (February 1923). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: "54 / 1922" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1977
1980
McKissick Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and her Circle)
Gibbes Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and her Circle)
1984
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)
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
1927
1931
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College (as An Exhibitions of Sixteen Paintings by Contemporary Modernists from the Phillips Memorial Gallery)
Williams College Museum of Art (as An Exhibitions of Sixteen Paintings by Contemporary Modernists from the Phillips Memorial Gallery)
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)
1946–1947
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
University of Michigan, Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Springfield Museums (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Delaware Art Museum (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Baltimore Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Phillips Memorial Gallery (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
New Orleans Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Minnesota Museum of American Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Columbus Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Munson Museum (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Smith College Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
1963–1967
(The Intimate Gallery, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
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Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8466
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