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Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 inches
CR No. 483
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Colección Carmen Thyssen
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A dark brown building, seen from street level, juts out against a cloudy sky that fades from orange at the bottom of the composition to dark blue at the top. A full moon peeks halfway out from behind the rippling clouds. A dark lamppost with a glowing streetlight and a red traffic light sits in front of the building. Other buildings are visible along the street, overlapping with the sky.
CR No. 483
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
New York Street with Moon
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946. . . . Information from O'Keeffe: Bought by Mrs. Adolph Meyer from 1926 exhibition. First N.Y. Street & painted 1925. Title given by O'Keeffe, 'New York Street with Moon.' Still owned by Mrs. Meyer. Sent in to Amer. Place for cleaning." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Reframed at An American Place in 1948." O'Keeffe wrote: ". . . I was looking for a place to live, I decided to try the Shelton. I was shown two rooms on the 30th floor. I had never lived up so high before and was so excited that I began talking about trying to paint New York. Of course, I was told that it was an impossible idea––even the men hadn't done too well with it. . . . My first painting was a night scene of 47th Street, New York with Moon. There was a street light in the upper foreground at about the Chatham Hotel" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 17). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Backing: Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York"1 (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2024–2025
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2011–2012
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
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)
[The Intimate Gallery], NewYork.
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Meyer, New York, 1926 (still in Mrs. Meyer's possession in 1946).
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Meyer, Scarsdale, New York, from 1960 until 1976.
Arcadia Inc., Washington (DC).
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, 1981.
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan to the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid. (Source: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/5/2026
Last verified by current collection Mar 02 2026
Source System ID
8568
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