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Oil on canvas, 30 3/16 x 18 1/4 inches
CR No. 522
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Georgia O'Keeffe and by exchange
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Overlapping geometric planes that resemble pieces of folded paper fill the frame. The shapes separate at the center to reveal a thin black line that runs the length of this narrow canvas.
CR No. 522
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Abstraction
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946:. . . No signature. . . . Acquired by Whitney Museum of American Art 1958." Mentioned in 1934 New York (An American Place) exhibition review in New York Times (1934). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York" (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: VITAL SIGNS/Obj .NO. 30/ BOX 8
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE [space] 5./ Abstraction, 1926/ Oil on canvas/ 30 x 18 inches/ Collection of The Whitney Museum/ of American Art/ Exhibited Jan. 11-Feb. 27, 1927/ WASHBURN GALLERY N.Y.
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: WASHBURN GALLERY/ 42 EAST 57th STREET/ NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022/ ARTIST GEORGIA O'KEEFE/ TITE ABSTRACTION 1926/ MEDIUM: OIL ON CANVAS/ SIZE: 30x 18 inches
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: Fasten on back of work in upper left hand corner/ THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO/ EXHIBITION GEORGIA O'KEEFE/ [blank line]/ DATES Jan. Feb. 1943./ ARTIST GEORGIA O'KEEFE/ TITLE ABSTRACTION, 1926/ OWNER GEORGIA O'KEEFE/ OWNER'S ADDRESS Room 1710/ 509 Madison avenue
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: The Whitney's Collection/ 1/30/08-2009/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ Oil on canvas/ 30 ¼ x 18 1/16 in./ (76.84 x 45.88 cm)/ Frame 30 ½ x 18 3/8 in./ Purchase/ 58.43/ Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: Box 8
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: ARTIST GEORGIA O'KEEFE NO. 85/ TITLE ABSTRACTION DATE 1926/ MEDIUM Oil 18X [torn label] S.P. S AIII/ THE DOWNTOWN GALLERY [torn label] St., New York
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: "An American Space" 35/ 509 Madison Avenue - Room 1710/ (S.E. corner 53rd Street - New York)
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM/ EXPOSITION PARK/ LOS ANGELES 7, CALIFORNIA/ S.O. No. 61-344/ Box No. 8
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: Detach and fasten on back of work/ WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/ 10 West 8th ST., NEW YORK CITY/ RECEIVING ROOM, 15 ½ MACDOUGAL ALLEY/ ABSTRACT PAINTING IN AMERICA/ ARTIST GEORGIA O'KEEFE/ ADDRESS [illegible]/ TITLE [illegible]/ PRICE 2500/ RETURN ADDRESS [illegible]/ INSURANCE VALUE [illegible]
Label removed from backing board [housed in the object file]: GEORGIA O'KEEFE. Naturalezas intimas./ [logo] CAJA: 5/ No: 13/ 121.9 x 76.2 cm/ [crossed out] Abstraction/ (Georgia O'Keefe)
Label removed from backing board [housed in the object file]: Georgia O'Keefe: Nature and Abstraction/ Irish Museum of Modern Art: 3/6/07 - 5/13/07/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ Oil on canvas/ 30 ¼ x 18 1/6 in. (76.84 x 45.88 cm)/ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/ Purchase 58.43/ Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: WMAA # 58.43/Cat. Rais. #522/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ Oil on canvas/ 30 1/4 x 18 in./ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY/ Georgia O'Keefe: Abstraction/ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Sept. 17, 2009 - Jan. 17,2010/ The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Feb.6 2010 - May 9, 2010/ Georgia O'Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, NM May 28 - Sept. 12, 2010
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art (Korea)/ 6/10/2011-9/5/2011/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ Oil on canvas/ 30 1/4 x 18 1/16 (76.84 x 45.88 cm)/ Frame: 30 1/2 x 18 3/8 in./ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/ Purchase/ 58.43
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/ 945 Madison Avenue at Seventy-Fifth Street New York, NY 10021/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ oil on canvas/ 58.43/ OF, FOR, AND BY GEORGIA O'KEEFE/ February 25 - May 4, 1994
Label removed from backing board [housed in the object file]: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/ 945 MADISON AVENUE/ NEW YORK, NY 10021/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ Oil on canvas/ 30 ¼ x 18 1/16 inches (76.84 x 45.88 cm.)/ 58.43/ LOAN#: ML.02.9.2, on loan to: Fundacion Juan March/ Castello, 77/ 48006 Madrid Spain/ "Georgia O'Keefe", Fundacion Juan March, 1 February - 2/ June 2002
Label removed from backing board [housed in the object file]: Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75/ June 29 - October 15, 2006/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ Oil on canvas/ 30 ¼ x 18 1/16 in./ (76.84 x 45.88 cm.)/ Frame 30 1/2 x 18 3/8 in./ Purchase/ 58.43
Label removed from backing board [housed in the object file]: Georgia O'Keefe: Nature and Abstraction/ Irish Museum of Modern Art: 3/6-5/13/2007/ Vancouver Art Gallery: 10/6/07-1/8/2008/ Georgia O'Keefe/ Abstraction, 1926/ 30 ¼ x 18 1/16 inches (76.84 x 45.88 cm)/ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/ Purchase/ 58.43
Removed from backing board [housed in object file] upper left handwritten in graphite: 175 b
Removed from backing board [housed in object file] upper left handwritten in ink: #/ Box 31/ on 9
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1943
1955
1960–1961
Walker Art Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
Detroit Institute of Arts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
1962–1963
The Speed Art Museum
Quincy Art Center
Frye Art Museum
University of Oregon
Boise Art Museum
Allentown Art Museum
Gibbes Museum of Art
None
Public Library of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG)
Augustana College Art Museum
Orange County Museum of Art
1962–1964
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Phillips Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2016–2017
2024–2025
1926- collection of the artist; 1958 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (sold through Downtown Gallery, New York, New York)
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 8/26/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 15 2025
Source System ID
8597
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