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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Iris VI, 1936
Image: okeeffe_CR885_black-iris-vi_793869.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Iris VI, 1936
Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches
CR No. 885
Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 885

The purplish-gray petals of an iris encircle its black center. The flower's rippling white upper petals fill the top of the frame. A green stem just barely peeks out from beneath the flower.

CR No. 885

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Iris VI

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Iris – VI

Black Iris II

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "Black Iris II – 1936 / by Georgia O'Keeffe / Value $6000" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(An American Place, New York, NY); Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gould Schurman, San Francisco, California, 1946; Descended in family; Christie's, New York, NY, sale no. 8886, lot no. 199, 21 May 1998 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

8863

Other IDs

885, Catalogue Raisonné