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Oil on canvas, 14 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches
CR No. 368
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Museum purchase with funds provided by the 1981 and 1982 Museum Dinners and Balls, the Museum Store, Donors, and matching funds from Mr. and Mrs. Jack McSpadden, 1983.28
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A bright green apple rests on a circular black plate. The background of the work is painted solid white.
CR No. 368
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
The Green Apple
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title
The Green Apple on Black Plate
Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham
Selected Exhibition Titles
Green Apple on Black Plate
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
Green Apple on Black Plate
Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro, 2007, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Green Apple on Black Plate
Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro, 2007, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted 1921." Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Sold to Harold Greengard. . . Green apple on black plate. See gallery photograph, 4–f." Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Purchased by Birmingham Museum of Art, 1981." Stretcher inscription 1 dates 1922 and illegible area would indicate number in 1923 New York (Anderson) exhibition. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive date c. 1921. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1921. Dated 1922 on basis of stretcher inscription 1. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 15. Titled Green Apple on Black Plate, 1921? and that work was included in 1923 exhibition by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph; The Green Apple Still Life by O'Keeffe on 2nd Abiquiú Notebooks photograph; Apple & Tray – Green & Black, 1922 Stieglitz on 3rd Abiquiú Notebooks photograph; The Green Apple, 1921 by Stieglitz on 4th Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: 1. "(illegible) / 1922" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 2. "Greengard / glass" (George Of, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Yokohama Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
2007–2008
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986); purchased from O'Keeffe, through Alfred Stieglitz, New York, by Harold Greengard, New York, 1923; descended to his son, Frederick L. Grayson, 1972; purchased from Grayson, through Doris Bry, New York, by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1983 (Source: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/5/2026
Last verified by current collection Mar 02 2026
Source System ID
8467
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