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Georgia O'Keeffe
Leaf Motif, No. 2, 1924
Courtesy of McNay Art Museum
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Leaf Motif, No. 2, 1924
Oil on canvas, 35 x 18 inches
CR No. 467
Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Mary and Sylvan Lang Collection (1975.45)
Oil on canvas, 35 x 18 inches
Collection:McNay Art Museum
Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Mary and Sylvan Lang Collection (1975.45)
CR No. 467

Abstracted, overlapping leaves in shades of cream, orange, and red curl around one another. These contrast with a background of dark green, blue, and black.

CR No. 467

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Leaf Motif, No. 2

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Records.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Leaf Motif – #2

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Leaf Motif

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Leaf Motif – No. 2

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Leaf Motif, No. II

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Leaf Motif #2

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Leaf Motif #2
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "Leaf Motif – #2 / by Georgia O'Keeffe / 1924 / Cat. #108 7 American Exhib [word cut off] / 1925" (AS, graphite) 3. AAP1 4. "509 Madison Ave / Leaf Motif / 1500 / Rm 1710-509 Madison Ave" (AS, Whitney Museum label, black ink) 5. "$ [$ amount scratched out]" (AS, black crayon) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Lang Charities, San Antonio (1973-1975)
Mary and Sylvan Lang, San Antonio (1960-1973)
The Downtown Gallery, NYC (1960)
An American Place Gallery, NYC
(Source: The McNay, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Jul 16 2025

Source System ID

8553

Other IDs

467, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by The McNay in 2025.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

The painting is executed in oil on canvas and is in stable condition overall. Stretcher bar images are prominent across the top and down the upper right side of the canvas with a less prominent occurrence along the upper left side. There are possible losses from a light abrasion in the upper right quadrant. Light mechanical cracking is present in the upper left, center, and lower left areas, and all appear stable. There is a possible pinpoint loss along the lower right edge of the canvas, close to the frame.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

Sprayed with methacrylate in Zylene-Benzine. FA Conservation (1960) Stretcher bar images minimized using moisture from dampened blotters. Several dark accretions removed from surface of the painting using organic solvents. Anne Zanikos, Conservator (1995)