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Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 48 inches
CR No. 620
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A New York cityscape with a bright blue river running through its center. In the foreground is the near bank of the river, with numerous tall buildings in tones of gray and brown. Boats float along the river from the left to right side of the composition. In the background, the far bank of the river is visible, its buildings obscured and softened by atmospheric haze. Stretching above is a thin strip of grayish pink sky. Numerous smokestacks are visible throughout the composition.
CR No. 620
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
East River from 30th Story Shelton Hotel
Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.
East River from the Shelton No. VII
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
East River from the Shelton
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
General Remarks
John Marin, Jr, mentioned in backing inscription 6, was the son of artist John Marin, and worked for Halpert. Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold by Halpert, June 1958." Reproduced and titled East River New York, N.Y. in Art Digest (1935); East River from the Shelton in Fortune (1939). Pictured in 1935 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 59, 60. See cat. nos. 520, 521. (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. "East River from 30th Story / Shelton Hotel / by Georgia O'Keeffe / 1928 / Exhibition 1929" (Alfred Stieglitz, black crayon) 4. "East River From 30th Story / Shelton Hotel / by Georgia O'Keeffe / 1928" (Andrew Droth, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York", black ink) 5. Stamp: "Georgia O'Keeffe / An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York — N.Y." 6. "For Philadelphia Museum of Art JMJr" (John Marin, Jr., graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1941
1943
1952
1960–1961
Walker Art Center
Whitney Museum of American Art
Detroit Institute of Arts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
1961
1964
1965
Gallery of Modern Art
The Wadsworth
1969
Lyman Allyn Art Museum
Mattatuck Museum
New Britain Museum of American Art
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
2000–2001
2016–2017
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
North Carolina Museum of Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
2024–2025
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 7/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
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