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Oil on canvas, 9 x 7 inches
CR No. 604
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Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University; Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, an anonymous donor, and the Committee for Art Acquisition Fund, 1997.96 (1997.96)
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Masses of deep green, gray, and black seaweed ripple across the composition. A few dark red kelp bulbs dot the image.
CR No. 604
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Seaweed
Source of title: backing inscription 4, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1928 New York (Intimate Gallery–O'Keeffe) exhibition checklist.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam at Amer. Place, March 1946: . . [notes backing inscription 1]. This is similar to Mrs. Weiner's 'Seaweed' which we have tentatively dated 1926." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: "$" [$ figure obscured] (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite). Verso: 1. "G. Okeeffe Aug. 1927" (white paint) 2. "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink). Backing: 1. "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink) 2. "New York – N.Y." (Art Institute of Chicago label, black ink) 3. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York" 4. "Seaweed / 1927 / oil / 9 x 7 / canvas / Juley 68 lost" (Label: printed, O'Keeffe (red-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
Milwaukee Art Museum (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection)
1966
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
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)
2024–2025
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: "My New Yorks")
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
1943
1946
Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, NM
(Source: Cantor Center, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 08 2025
Source System ID
8671
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Published with corresponding artwork entry in Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Lynes, 1999), this historical conservation information documents treatment decisions made during the artist’s lifetime. Lynes quotes information found on backing labels, and, when noted, from other sources.
"Worcester Art Museum, Worcester. Sprayed with acrylic resin . . . copolimer n-butyl and . . . methacrylate 10% solution . . . mixture xylene 50% and . . . #1 50%. Sept 1960 by E. de Beaumont, Conservator" (typed label).
Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by Cantor Center in 2025.
Overall good condition. Areas of fine cracks as noted. Felt liner fuzz visible around painting edges. Few accretions caught in felt. Fiber caught in varnish in ML quad. Few scattered tiny white dots.
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