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Georgia O'Keeffe
Cross with Red Heart, 1932
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Cross with Red Heart, 1932
Oil on canvas, 83 1/4 x 40 1/2 inches
CR No. 812
Oil on canvas, 83 1/4 x 40 1/2 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 812

A slender white and gray cross rises through the narrow composition. A red heart, surrounded by white and gray spikes, sits at the intersection of the cross’ two arms. Protruding from the top of the cross is a brown weathervane in the shape of a rooster. The background of the work is a landscape with a green hill below an expanse of blue sky. White and dark gray clouds hang over the scene. The top of the canvas is rounded, forming an arch over the composition.

CR No. 812

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Cross with Red Heart

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1933 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March, 1946." Pictured in 1933 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 53. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(Doris Bry, New York, NY); (Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY); Sacred Heart Academy, Margaretville, New York, 1966; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, sale no. 5190, lot no. 65, 30 May 1984, no sale, treaty sale (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Source System ID

8816

Other IDs

812, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Published with corresponding artwork entry in Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Lynes, 1999), this historical conservation information documents treatment decisions made during the artist’s lifetime. Lynes quotes information found on backing labels, and, when noted, from other sources.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

Work was rectangular in shape (as in Stieglitz installation photograph) until 1962, when Fine Arts Conservation Laboratories, working under O'Keeffe's instruction, altered the shape of its stretcher. Records owned by Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation.