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Oil on canvas, 39 7/8 x 32 inches
CR No. 469
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Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
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At the top of this abstract composition, billowing pink forms spread horizontally across the canvas over a yellow background. Below these is a band of black paint, then curling red, pink, and orange horizontal forms that resemble the unfolding petals of a flower.
CR No. 469
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Red, Yellow and Black Streak
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Red to Black
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature." Abiquiú Notebooks notes inscription 2. Inscription 1 does not relate to this work. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "No 26 / [words obscured] Yellow Lavender [words obscured]" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) 3. "New York – N.Y." (Art Institute of Chicago label, black ink) 4. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe" 5. Stamp: "Georgia O'Keeffe / An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York — N.Y." 6. "Box 17 / on 5" (Doris Bry, black ink) 7. "take off frame" (Andrew Droth, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
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)
2007–2008
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle)
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2003–2004
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
1943
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
Milwaukee Art Museum (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
Estate of the artist, 1986; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1993
(Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/5/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 14 2025
Source System ID
8555
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Published with corresponding artwork entry in Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Lynes, 1999), this historical conservation information documents treatment decisions made during the artist’s lifetime. Lynes quotes information found on backing labels, and, when noted, from other sources.
"Sprayed by Mrs. Keck May 1949 with butyl methacrylate polymer" (Keck typed label).
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