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Georgia O'Keeffe
Wave, 1922
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Wave, 1922
Pastel on paper, 19 x 25 inches
CR No. 384
Pastel on paper, 19 x 25 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 384

A curling, blue and green wave sweeps across exposed white paper.

CR No. 384

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Wave

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. Photocopy in Downtown Gallery Archive of exhibition label indicates "Georgia O'Keeffe at 'An American Place'/509 Madison Ave. – Room 1710/(S.E. Corner 53rd Str – New York, N.Y.)/'Wave' – (1923) Pastel/by Georgia O'Keeffe/44 Selected paintings/(1915–1927) January 29–March 17/34" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink). Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1923. Dated 1922 on basis of inclusion in 1923 New York (Anderson) exhibition, pictured in Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 13. Orientation based on installation photograph. See cat. nos. 381–83, 385–87. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Pastel

Materials

Pastel on paper

(An American Place, New York, NY); Claire Florsheim Zeisler, Chicago, Illinois, 1934; (B. C. Holland Inc., Chicago, Illinois); Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California, 1961; The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, 1961; Private collection, Providence, Rhode Island, 1968; The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, 1968; Estate of Edith G. Halpert, 1970; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 3483, lot no. 55, 15 March 1973; (ACA Galleries, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 6/10/2026

Source System ID

8480

Other IDs

384, Catalogue Raisonné