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Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches
CR No. 671
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Albuquerque Museum, museum purchase, PC1985.50.1
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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
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
1998
2024–2025
San Diego Museum of Art (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Albuquerque Museum (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Musee Des Beaux-Arts Montreal (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Boston) (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2003–2004
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
1997–1998
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)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 08 2025
Source System ID
8727
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