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Georgia O'Keeffe
2 Yellow Leaves, 1928
Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR640_2-yellow-leaves_863521.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
2 Yellow Leaves, 1928
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 1/8 inches
CR No. 640
Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 1/8 inches
Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
CR No. 640

Two yellow leaves, one on top of the other, rest on a white surface.

CR No. 640

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

2 Yellow Leaves

Source of title: backing inscription 1.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Yellow Leaves

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Selected Exhibition Titles

2 Yellow Leaves (Yellow Leaves)
Georgia O'Keeffe: Art, Image, Style, 2017, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature." Backing inscriptions date 1926 and 1928. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1928. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: "#4" (unidentified hand, graphite). Backing: 1. "2 Yellow Leaves – 26" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) 3. "Probably 28" (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Artist (The), until 1986, Estate of Georgia O’Keeffe (The), Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1986-1987, Brooklyn Museum (The), 1987 (Source: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Brooklyn Museum of Art

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection 2025

Source System ID

8701

Other IDs

640, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

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.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

"8/63 co-polymer iso and n-butyl methacrylate 2215" (Fine Arts Conservation Laboratories typed label).

REPORT NOTES

Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2025.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

Good

CONDITION NARRATIVE

Infrared subtraction (irrsubt) generated responses in the passages of green paint around the edges of the leaves as well as in the stem and spines, suggesting the presence of a blue pigment . These areas appear red in the false color infrared image, which further supports this conclusion. Ultraviolet fluorescence (uvl) showed several localized passages of bright orange fluorescence -- notably along the spines of the smaller leaf. This fluorescence color is characteristic of red lake pigments.