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Oil on canvas, 32 x 21 inches
CR No. 605
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A large, smooth purple leaf with a bright red vein running down its center fills much of the canvas. Behind the leaf are several overlapping forms that echo its shape. The forms glow in shades of purple, red, and gray.
CR No. 605
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Autumn Leaf II
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Autumn Leaves – No. 2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Autumn Leaf – B
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Autumn Leaves No. 2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Autumn Leaves #2
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature [notes backing inscription 2]. . . . O'Keeffe says ptd. 1927." Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold by Halpert to Lasker, 9/61; Sold at Auction . . . 1980 to Kennedy Galleries." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "Autumn Leaves – No. 2 / 1927 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1965
Gallery of Modern Art (as 20th Century Painting and Sculpture from Connecticut Collections)
The Wadsworth (as 20th Century Painting and Sculpture from Connecticut Collections)
1928
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
Intimate Gallery (as O'Keeffe Exhibition)
1953
Dallas Museum of Art (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
Mayo Hill Galleries (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
1956
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Albert D. Lasker, New York, NY, 1961; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 4365, lot no. 246, 25 April 1980; Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, and Robert Miller Gallery, Inc., New York, NY, 1980; Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, 1984; (Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, Inc., New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8672
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