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Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Cross with Blue, 1929
Courtesy of Albuquerque Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Cross with Blue, 1929
Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches
CR No. 671
Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, PC1985.50.1
Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches
Collection:Albuquerque Museum
Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, PC1985.50.1
CR No. 671

CR No. 671

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Grey Cross with Blue

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1930 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

Alternate Title

Gray Cross with Blue

Source of title: Albuquerque Museum.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Grey Cross with Blue
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, 2009, Norton Museum of Art (Palm Beach)

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, ''Gray Cross with Blue' (Santa Fe). Sold to Miss Brunell; Santa Fe. Painted 1929.'Pictured in 1930 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 35, 39. Reproduced and titled Cross in The Survey (May 1931); The White Cross in The World Outlook (April 1933). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe / Summer – 1929" (black paint) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

from the artist through "An American Place" New York
to Alice Howland and Eleanor Brownell, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1932
to Parker Wilson, Santa Fe, New Mexico, after 1965
descended in family
to Owings - Dewey Fine Art
to Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, 1985
(Source: Albuquerque Museum, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 08 2025

Source System ID

8727

Other IDs

671, Catalogue Raisonné