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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Dish and Green Leaves, 1929
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Dish and Green Leaves, 1929
Pastel on board, Gil Tedge Pastel Board, No. 8. Becker New Canaan, Connecticut*, 22 x 28 inches
CR No. 654
Pastel on board, Gil Tedge Pastel Board, No. 8. Becker New Canaan, Connecticut*, 22 x 28 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 654

Green leaves rest in a shiny white pedestal bowl with a pink lip. The bowl sits on a windowsill. Outside the window is a cityscape with hazy gray skyscrapers and a bright white river running through it.

CR No. 654

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Pink Dish and Green Leaves

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

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . On backing: Intimate Gal. label, 1929 exhibition, as 'Pink Dish with East River' [not verified]. Note: Not owned by Mrs. Rockefeller" [in response to provenance given in Formes, see below]. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1928. Verso inscription dates 1929. Dated 1929 on basis of verso inscription. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks associate with 1929 New York (An American Place) exhibition, but work not included on checklist. Reproduced and titled The Pink Vase with Green Leaves in Formes (January 1932), Pink Dish and Green Leaves at New York Window in America & Alfred Stieglitz (1934), Pink Vase and Green Leaves in Expressionism in Art (1934), Pink Dish – East River, New York in American Artist (June 1943). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe – Jan. 1929" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Pastel

Materials

Pastel on board, Gil Tedge Pastel Board, No. 8. Becker New Canaan, Connecticut*

Extended Medium Description

Pastel on board, Gil Tedge Pastel Board, No. 8. Becker New Canaan, Connecticut
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)

Estate of the artist, 1986 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/5/2026

Source System ID

8715

Other IDs

654, Catalogue Raisonné