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Georgia O'Keeffe
Barn with Snow, 1934
Image: okeeffe_CR822_barn-with-snow_794116.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Barn with Snow, 1934
Oil on canvas, 16 x 28 inches
CR No. 822
San Diego Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge (1976.215)
Oil on canvas, 16 x 28 inches
San Diego Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge (1976.215)
CR No. 822

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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 4/22/2026

Last verified by current collection 2025

Source System ID

8823

Other IDs

822, 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

"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).