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Georgia O'Keeffe
My Shanty, 1922
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Georgia O'Keeffe
My Shanty, 1922
Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 27 1/8 inches
CR No. 367
Oil on canvas, 20 1/2 x 27 1/8 inches
CR No. 367

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

(The Intimate Gallery, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Source System ID

8466

Other IDs

367, Catalogue Raisonné