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Georgia O'Keeffe
Summer Days, 1936
Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR880_summer-days_858598.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Summer Days, 1936
Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
CR No. 880
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Calvin Klein
Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Calvin Klein
CR No. 880

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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 15 2025

Source System ID

8859

Other IDs

880, Catalogue Raisonné