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Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow, 1923–1925
Courtesy of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Image: okeeffe_CR447_grey-lines-with-black-blue-and-yellow_869923.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow, 1923–1925
Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 inches
CR No. 447
Museum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment, 77.331
Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 inches
Museum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment, 77.331
CR No. 447

In this abstract work, layered pastel forms in shades of pink, light blue, and yellow overlap one another like petals framing the center of a flower. The petal-like shapes are narrow and run vertically along the canvas. A set of larger, softly shaded pink and white shapes frame the central petals.

CR No. 447

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature. On backing: In pencil by O'Keeffe: 'Grey Lines with Black Blue and Yellow. 23?" [not verified]. Museum files note Whitney Archive and Abiquiú Notebooks inscription and indicate another: "'Wedding'/by Georgia O'Keeffe 1925" (Alfred Stieglitz, medium not recorded). Lost inscription dates 1925. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive date 1923. Abiquiú Notebooks dates c. 1923. Pictured in 1934 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 56. Reproduced and titled Grey Line in Time (May 1946). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Ex-collection: The artist
Ex-collection: Private Collection.
Sold: via Washburn Gallery, New York, NY, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on November 21, 1977.
(Source: MFA Houston, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 6/10/2026

Last verified by current collection 2025

Source System ID

8536

Other IDs

447, Catalogue Raisonné