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Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey and White, 1925
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey and White, 1925
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
CR No. 479
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 479

A series of overlapping, diagonal forms in white and gray resemble folds of fabric. Along the top edge of the canvas, undulating lines run diagonally to the image's top right edge.

CR No. 479

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Grey and White

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

General Remarks

Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946. . . . On backing: In graphite by O'Keeffe 'Grey and White' – 25. Initials in circle" [not verified]. Whitney Archive indicates, "Grey and white abstraction. Probably in 1926 exhibition of which we have no catalogue." This and other paintings were reproduced as advertising posters by Cheney Silks in the 1920s: see cat. nos. 479A, 480, 480A, and Appendix II, nos. 79–81. Orientation in Abiquiú Notebooks differs (upside down), but publication of image in Cheney Silks advertisement verifies orientation, see cat. no. 479A. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, Brooklyn, New York, 1964; (Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York, NY); Private collection, New York, NY, 1980; (Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

8564

Other IDs

479, Catalogue Raisonné