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Oil on canvas, 16 x 28 inches
CR No. 822
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San Diego Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge (1976.215)
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A gray and red barn with a pitched, snow-covered roof stands on a stretch of snowy earth. A gray and white sky stretches overhead.
CR No. 822
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Barn with Snow
Source of title: backing inscription 1, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Barn – Lake George – Winter
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Not listed in 1935 exhibition so this [New York (An American Place – O'Keeffe) 1937] must be first time shown. Exam. at Amer. Place, March, 1946" [notes inscription 1]. Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Note: From exhibition 1934 folder 'Barn in Snow, 1933.' May be misdated." Backing inscriptions date 1933. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1934. Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1933. Dated 1934 on basis of Stieglitz–O'Keeffe correspondence. Due to illness, O'Keeffe did not paint from late fall 1932 until January 1934, when she completed this work. She wrote: "There was a fine old barn at the Lake George farmhouse. . . . I have looked at the barn in summer and have looked at it in the winter when the snow was deep" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 44). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Backing: 1. "Barn with Snow – 33" (graphite) 2. OK {6star} (graphite) 3. OK {circle} (graphite) 4. "Barn with Snow / 1933" (Andrew Droth, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe", black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Yokohama Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
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)
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
2011–2012
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
2003–2004
1952
1953
Dallas Museum of Art (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
Mayo Hill Galleries (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
1960
The Downtown Gallery, Inc., New York, New York ( - )
The Downtown Gallery, Inc., New York, New York ( - 1960)
Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, New York (1934 - )
H. R. Aldredge, Dallas, Texas (1952 - )
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Snowden, Fort Worth Texas (1960 - ca. 1966)
Mrs. Frederick M. Lege, III, Washington, D.C. (1966 - )
Doris Bry, New York, New York (1966 - 1967)
Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, New York (1967 - ca. 1969)
Doris Bry, New York, New York (1969 - 1969)
Sidney and George Perutz, Dallas, Texas (1969 - 1971)
Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge, La Jolla, California (1971 - January 14, 1977)
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (January 14, 1977 - )
(Source: SDMA website, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection 2025
Source System ID
8823
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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.
"Sprayed with butyl methacrylate polymer. March. 1948. by Keck" (Keck typed label); "Cleaned, relined and sprayed with Lucite #46 dissolved in xylene – August, 1967 by Felrath Hines" (typed label).
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