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Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 inches
CR No. 577
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Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
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A tall, black skyscraper rises dramatically into the night sky. Light shines from some of the windows in the building and other structures around it, creating a patchwork of black and white. At the top of one of the buildings, text rendered in red neon reads Alfred Stieglitz. Steam or smoke spreads across the deep blue sky, which is illuminated by the beams of unseen searchlights.
CR No. 577
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Radiator Bldg – Night, New York
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Radiator Bldg – Night New York
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Radiator Bldg. Night – New York, N. Y.
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Radiator Building, Night – N.Y. City
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Radiator Building
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Radiator Building – Night
(This title used by Crystal Bridges)
Radiator Building – Night, New York
A Building, N.Y. – Night
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Infor. from Miss Bry (An Amer. Place), July 1949: On permanent loan to Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, from Georgia O'Keeffe as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Coll." Inscription 8 dates 1925. Inscription 10, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1927. Dated 1927 on basis of inclusion in 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery– O'Keeffe) exhibition. Titled Radiator Building – Night /New York by Stieglitz on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph; reproduced in Art in America (1929); reproduced and titled The American Radiator Building at Night in New York Herald-Tribune (December 1929); reproduced in Outlook and Independent (January 1930); reproduced as New York's Black Tower in Fortune (April 1935); reproduced in Newsweek (July 1944); titled Radiator Building in The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin (June 1945). See cat. no. 1894. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "New York – N.Y." (Art Institute of Chicago label, black ink) 3. "Georiga O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite [part of inscription obscured by label]) 4. "Radiator Bldg – Night / New York / oil by Georgia O'Keeffe / 509 Madison Ave. / N.Y. City / (Room 1710)" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 5. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York" 6. "Radiator Bldg. Night – / New York, N. Y. / by Georgia O'Keeffe / address: An American Place / 509 Madison Ave. / New York, N.Y. / N.Y./ Value $3500" {"$3500" crossed out} (Alfred Stieglitz, white label, black ink) 7. "Radiator Building, Night – N.Y. City / Georgia O'Keeffe / 489 Park Avenue N. Y. City / artist / return to George F. Of 125 57th Street / City" (Alfred Stieglitz, Grand Central Palace label, black ink) 8. Radiator Building 1925 / by / Georgia O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) 9. Radiator Building – Night / Room 1710 / 509 Madison Ave." (Alfred Stieglitz, Whitney label, black ink) 10. "Alfred Stieglitz Collection / Fisk University / #61 Georgia O'Keeffe / Radiator Building – Night, New York. 1927." (Doris Bry, black ink) 11. Stamp: "Georgia O'Keeffe / An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York — N.Y." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Yokohama Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
2024–2025
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
North Carolina Museum of Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
New Britain Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
1929
1929–1930
1941
1943
Artist; to Alfred Stieglitz (her husband); to Artist (his wife); to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1949; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, as co-owners, 2012 (Source: Crystal Bridges, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection 2025
Source System ID
8647
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