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Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches
CR No. 644
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. Purchased as the gift of Charles L. Stillman (PA, 1922)
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A large cloud that fades from black at the bottom to white at its top looms over black water. The sky beyond the cloud is pale pink.
CR No. 644
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Wave, Night
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Wave – Night
Wave
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted 1928. . . . See Gallery photograph." Pictured in 1935 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 61. O'Keeffe wrote: "In the spring of 1929 I went to York Beach, Maine, with an old friend of Stieglitz . . . . I spent much time walking on the long, clean sandy beach –– often picking up extraordinary things that I kept in large platters of water to paint. . . . I loved running down the board walk to the ocean –– watching the waves come in, spreading over the hard wet beach –– the lighthouse steadily bright far over the waves in the evening when it was almost dark" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 46). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1965–1966
1984
1998
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
1951
Berliner Festwochen (Rathaus Schöneberg, Ausstellungssaal) (as Amerikanische Malerei: Werden and Gegenwart)
Schloss Charlottenburg (as Amerikanische Malerei: Werden and Gegenwart)
Amerikahaus (as Amerikanische Malerei: Werden and Gegenwart)
1952
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)
1963
1963–1964
Colby College Museum of Art (as Maine and Its Artists: 1710–1963)
Portland Museum of Art (Maine) (as Maine and Its Artists: 1710–1963)
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Boston) (as Maine and Its Artists: 1710–1963)
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Maine and Its Artists: 1710–1963)
Artist; with The Downtown Gallery, Inc., New York, NY, 1947; AAGA, 1947 (Source: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection Dec 10 2025
Source System ID
8705
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