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Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
CR No. 880
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Calvin Klein
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A beige deer skull with curling antlers rests at the center of the composition against a white background. A red paintbrush flower, along with a few small yellow flowers, floats underneath the skull, just above the landscape that fills the bottom quarter of the canvas. In the landscape, rolling brown hills stretch out beneath a clouded blue and white sky.
CR No. 880
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Summer Days
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1937 New York (An American Place–O'Keeffe) exhibition checklist.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Summer Days, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Summer Days – New Mexico
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place." Reproduced in Art News (February 1937). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
On stretcher bar upper center in graphite: 39 1/2/ 2 [÷] 78
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: 'Georgia O'Keeffe'/ Fondazione Roma Museo: October 4, 2011 - January 15, 2012/ The Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich: January 26 - May 13,/ 2012/ Georgia O'Keeffe/ Summer Days, 1936/ Oil on canvas/ 36 x 30 in. (91.44 x 76.2cm)/ Framed: 36 1/4 x 30 3/16 in./ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/ Gift of Calvin Klein/ 94.171
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: Modern Life. Edward Hopper und seine Zeit/ 5/9/2009-1/17/2010/ Georgia O'Keeffe/ Summer Days, 1936/ Oil on canvas/ 36 x 30 in. (91.44 x 76.2cm)/ Framed 36 1/4 x 30 3/16 in./ Gift of Calvin Klein/ 94.171/ Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/ 945 MADISON AVENUE/ NEW YORK, NY 10021/ THE AMERICAN CENTURY:/ ART AND CULTURE 1900-2000/ April 23 - August 22, 1999/ 4th Floor/ Georgia O'Keeffe/ Summer Days, 1936/ Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches/ Gift of Calvin Klein, 94.171
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: The Phillips Collection 1600 21st Street NW Washington, DC 20009/ Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things/ (April 17, 1999 - May 14, 2000) Venues: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum,/ Dallas Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/ Checklist # 65 (), Crate # [illegible marking with strikethrough] 40 XL1999.1.87/ Georgia O'Keeffe/ Summer Days, 1936/ Oil on canvas/ 36 x 30 in./ Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,/ Gift of Calvin Klein
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/ 945 Madison Avenue at Seventy-Fifth Street [space] New York, New York 10021/ GOb.94.10.1/ Georgia O'Keeffe/ Summer Days, 1936/ oil on canvas/ P.4.83/ Promised gift of Calvin Klein/ OF, FOR, AND BY GEORGIA O'KEEFFE/ February 25 - May 4, 1994
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
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)
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)
2011–2012
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
1936-1983 collection of the artist; 1983-1994 collection of Calvin Klein, New York, New York (sold through the artist); 1994 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (gift of Calvin Klein)
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 15 2025
Source System ID
8859
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