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Georgia O'Keeffe
Wave, Night, 1928
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Wave, Night, 1928
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches
CR No. 644
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. Purchased as the gift of Charles L. Stillman (PA, 1922)
Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. Purchased as the gift of Charles L. Stillman (PA, 1922)
CR No. 644

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

Artist; with The Downtown Gallery, Inc., New York, NY, 1947; AAGA, 1947 (Source: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 10 2025

Source System ID

8705

Other IDs

644, Catalogue Raisonné