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Oil on canvas, 32 1/2 x 12 inches
CR No. 530
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Gift of Charles C. & Margaret Stevenson Henderson in memory of Hunt Henderson
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In this semiabstract composition, lines spring from a point on the lefthand side of the work, interrupting a smooth, white surface. A band of color runs diagonally from the bottom left to the top right of the work and transitions from bluish-white at the bottom to bright yellow at the top.
CR No. 530
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
New York – Night
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Madison Avenue
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Alternate Title
New York – Night (Madison Avenue)
Source of title: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.
Selected Exhibition Titles
New York - Night
Views of the City, 2000, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Hunt Henderson owned this work and Red Poppy (see cat. entry 638), according to his heirs. Yet entries in Whitney Archive and Abiquiú Notebooks associate Henderson with New York – Night, a 1927 painting, which was no. 1 in the 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery) checklist. Neither entry included measurements for the piece originally, but at some point Doris Bry wrote '48 x 30'into the Abiquiú Notebooks entry. The painting owned by Henderson measures 32 x 12. Downtown Gallery Archive titles the Henderson painting 'Madison Avenue, 1926'and indicates that Henderson purchased it from the Intimate Gallery. In 1929 letters from Stieglitz to Henderson that refer to his purchases, Stieglitz wrote; 'She [O'Keeffe] is delighted that you are to have the white abstraction with the wild red picture you have of her's'(22 March 1929, museum files); 'Did I ever acknowledge your kind letter of May 22 in which you tell me that the paintings arrived [an O'Keeffe and a Marin] and how you enjoyed particularly the white O'Keeffe" (30 October 1929, museum files). And in a 1955 letter to Edith Halpert, O'Keeffe mentions both paintings purchased by Henderson: "One [New York painting] that! think would be very good to have [for an exhibition Halpert had written her about] was owned by a New Orleans Sugar man named Henderson. He also had a large Red Poppy. The N.Y Night 27 is an abstract thing—very simple—and I think very good" (O'Keeffe to Edith Halpert, 7 May 1955, Archive of American Art). Because the painting was exhibited in 1928 and listed as New York—Night on the Intimate Gallery checklist, O'Keeffe and Irvine titled it as such and dated it 1927, as the painting was not available for examination. This date error was repeated in Abiquiú Notebooks. How the work came to be titled Madison Avenue in Downtown Gallery Archive is unclear. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: 1. "Georgia O'Keeffe / 1926" (black ink) 2. "#C / New Orleans" (George Of, graphite) 3. "Stieglitz" (George Of, graphite) 4. #cat no 35" (unidentified hand, black ink). Verso: 1. G. O'Keeffe / 1926" (white paint) 2. hand print (grey/blue paint) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2000–2001
1984
1992–1993
The Phillips Collection (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
IBM Gallery of Science and Art (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Two Lives Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs)
1998–1999
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)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
(The Intimate Gallery, New York, NY); sold to Hunt Henderson [1872–1939], New Orleans, LA, before March 22, 1929; by descent to Charles C. [1920–2016] and Margaret S. Henderson [d. 1980], New Orleans, LA; given to the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, June 14, 1971.
(Source: Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 11 2025
Source System ID
8604
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