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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Spring, 1948
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
Image: okeeffe_CR1163_spring_856042.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Spring, 1948
Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 84 1/4 inches
CR No. 1163
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.28
Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 84 1/4 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.28
CR No. 1163

Large horizontal painting of blue and grey tones. Along the bottom in the foreground lies a bleached antler with arms reaching upward towards the sky. Floating along the top spanning the length of the canvas is a vertebral bone. Superimposed over this in the middle are two white flowers, hovering just above a blue silhouette of the Pedernal.

CR No. 1163

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Spring

Source of title: backing inscriptions 2, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, Whitney Archive in 1969.

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: backing:

  1. "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink)
  2. "Spring 1948" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Private collection, Santa Fe, N.Mex., purchase, 1965
Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1977
(Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, N.Y., sale no. 4486M, lot no. 204, 4 December 1980)
The Anschutz Collection, Denver, Colo., 1980
(Spanierman Gallery, New York, N.Y.), exchange, 1982
(Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.)
(Callaway & Vallarino, New York, N.Y.)
Calvin Klein, New York, N.Y., 1982
(Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, N.Y.)
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

90

Other IDs

1163, Catalogue Raisonné