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Oil on canvas, 83 1/4 x 40 1/2 inches
CR No. 812
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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
2004–2005
Boise Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Hunter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Fresno Metropolitan Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
University of Michigan, Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
2001–2002
National Museum of Women in the Arts (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
McMichael Canadian Art Collection (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
Vancouver Art Gallery (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
New Mexico Museum of Art (as Places of their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo)
2003–2004
(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)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8816
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.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.
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.
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