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Oil on canvas, 40 1/4 x 30 inches
CR No. 573
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Helen Acheson Bequest
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A central, rounded form dominates the composition. The shape is surrounded by thin, rippling forms in dark blue, pale blue, white, and yellow that resemble petals wrapped around the center of a flower. Running through the center of the composition from top to bottom is a thin strip of white similar to a crack in a mirror. On either side of the strip, the forms are slightly different in color and shape as though refracted.
CR No. 573
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Abstraction Blue
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery–O'Keeffe) exhibition checklist.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Abstraction, Blue
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Back: O'Keeffe writing 'White Line – Blue Abstraction' – 27. 40 x 30 Initials and star" [not verified]. Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold to the Museum of Modern Art by Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1979." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Signed on back. Not dated. (Source: MoMA, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1928
1965–1966
1978
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
1998
2003–2004
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Norton Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Phillips Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2016–2017
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
North Carolina Museum of Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
2024–2025
Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiú, New Mexico.
1959, Dr. Helen Boignon, New York.
1979, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased from a private collection
(Helen Boignon?), New York through Hirschl & Adler Galleries (Norman Hirschl), New York. (Source: MoMA, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 8/26/2026
Last verified by current collection Dec 15 2025
Source System ID
8643
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