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Georgia O'Keeffe
The Green Apple, 1922
Courtesy of Birmingham Museum of Art.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
The Green Apple, 1922
Oil on canvas, 14 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches
CR No. 368
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
Oil on canvas, 14 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches
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
CR No. 368

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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/5/2026

Last verified by current collection Mar 02 2026

Source System ID

8467

Other IDs

368, Catalogue Raisonné