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Oil on canvas, 32 x 21 inches
CR No. 603
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Layers of pinkish white petals open to reveal the dark burgundy center of this semiabstract flower. The center of the flower resembles an upside-down heart and is situated on the bottom right corner of the work. Rippling lines of gray and black run along the righthand side of the composition.
CR No. 603
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Dark Iris No. 2
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery–O'Keeffe) exhibition checklist.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Iris No. 2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
Iris No. – 2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
Black Iris No. 2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
Iris #2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
Dark Iris No. II
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Dark Iris II
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
Black Iris, No, 2
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstract Variations, 2020, Seattle Art Museum (Seattle)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946. . . . On backing: 'Iris No. 2' 1927." Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold by Halpert, July 1961." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (black crayon) 2. "Iris No. 2 / by Georgia O'Keeffe / 1927" (Alfred Stieglitz, black crayon) 3. "Iris No – 2. / 1927 / by – Georgia O'Keeffe" (Andrew Droth, Label: printed, An American Place, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1975
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)
2011–2012
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
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)
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
1958
1962–1963
The Speed Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Quincy Art Center (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Frye Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
University of Oregon (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Boise Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Allentown Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Gibbes Museum of Art (as The Stieglitz Circle)
None (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Public Library of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Augustana College Art Museum (as The Stieglitz Circle)
Orange County Museum of Art (as The Stieglitz Circle)
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Private collection, San Antonio, Texas, 1961; Sotheby's, New York, NY, sale no. 5860, lot no. 213, 24 May 1989; (Citibank Art Advistory Service, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8670
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