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Georgia O'Keeffe
Sunset, Long Island, 1939
Image: okeeffe_CR974_sunset-long-island_824578.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Sunset, Long Island, 1939
Oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches
CR No. 974
Oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 974

In this minimalist composition, an orange sun glows at the center of a white sky. A band of glowing silver water reflects undulating black hills.

CR No. 974

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Sunset, Long Island

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Sunset – Long Island, N. Y

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Sunset – Long Island

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1939 and 1924. Dated 1939 on basis of inclusion in 1940 New York (An American Place – O'Keeffe) exhibition. Reproduced in New York Times (May 1940); Contemporary Art of the United States (1940). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(An American Place, New York, NY); International Business Machines, New York, NY, 1940; Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 1643, lot no. 54, 25 January 1956; The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, 1956; Private collection, Chicago, Illinois, 1957 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 6/10/2026

Source System ID

8925

Other IDs

974, Catalogue Raisonné