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Georgia O'Keeffe
City Night, 1926
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Georgia O'Keeffe
City Night, 1926
Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 inches
CR No. 529
Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 inches
CR No. 529

Massive, featureless black and gray skyscrapers, seen from below, rise through the canvas. Shorter white skyscrapers appear in the distance. A strip of blue night sky cuts through the center of the composition, and a white lamp glows brightly at the bottom of the work.

CR No. 529

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

City Night

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Street, New York No. II

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

New York Night

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

New York Canyons

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March, 1946. . . . No signature" On backing: In pencil by O'Keeffe "City Night – 26" . . . July 1949 [not verified]. Miss Bry (An Amer. Place) told me that this picture had been bought by the Miller Co, a lighting fixture firm in Conn. The Miller Co. used the color reproduction as their Christmas card in 1947." History of extensive conservation is recorded and available in museum files. Mentioned in New York Times (January 1932) as being at Reinhardt Galleries. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(An American Place, New York, NY); (The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, Meriden, Connecticut, 1947; The artist, purchase, 1961; (Robert Miller Gallery, Inc., New York, NY); James Maroney, Inc., New York, NY, and William Beadelston, Inc., New York, NY, 1979 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

8603

Other IDs

529, Catalogue Raisonné