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Oil on canvas, 32 x 12 inches
CR No. 583
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Collection of the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, FA 1954.4
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A green stem extends through the center of this narrow composition. Atop the stem is an iris flower with dark purple lower petals and pale gray center petals. The flower sits against a textured white and gray background.
CR No. 583
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Dark Iris
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Dark Iris No. 1
Title used by Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Dark Iris No. 1
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Iris [Dark Iris I]
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Letter from Mr. Oliver B. James. . . . March 5, 1946: "I own . . . 'Iris'. 1929. . . . Oil on canvas, unsigned." Note: Miss O'Keeffe thinks the above is Mr. James' 'Iris.' It might possibly be one of the 'Dark Iris' of the previous year, but in any case it was definitely painted in 1926 or 1927." Dated 1927 on basis of inclusion in 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery–O'Keeffe) exhibition. (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"0 (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
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
2024–2025
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
[Not provided by contributing organization in 2025 catalogue review.]
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 02 2025
Source System ID
8653
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