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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Place II, 1944
Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Place II, 1944
Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 30 inches
CR No. 1081
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959
Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 30 inches
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959
CR No. 1081

A thin, yellow stripe zigzags down the center of the composition. On either side, huge, smooth black and gray hills form a V-shape. Whisps of chalky white sand or mist swirl around the topmost hills.

CR No. 1081

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Place II

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Place

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.

Black Place – II

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.

Black Place #2

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.

Black Place No. II

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Infor. from Miss Bry (An Amer. Place), July 1949: On permanent loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Georgia O'Keeffe as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Coll." Inscription in Metropolitan Museum of Art file: "Black Place – II" (Andrew Droth, An American Place, black ink). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: "#8" (unidentified hand, graphite) Backing: "Black Place — " (AD, AAP4, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

William S. Lieberman in Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso. Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. Bordeaux, 1981, p. 174, no. 225, ill.

Lowery S. Sims in Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York: de Ramsès à Picasso. Exh. cat., Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux. Bordeaux, 1981, pp. 166–67.

Lisa Mintz Messinger. "Georgia O'Keeffe." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), pp. 54, 56–67, 61, ill.

Vera Graaf. "Georgia O'Keefes Leben." Du no. 5 (May 1987), pp. 28–29, ill.

Lisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 85–87, ill.

Michael Berry. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 90–91, ill.

Roxana Robinson. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. New York, 1989, pp. 477–78.

Doris Bry in Georgia O'Keeffe, in the West. Ed. Doris Bry and Nicholas Callaway. New York, 1989, pl. 60.

Elizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1993, p. 71, ill.

Lisa Mintz Messinger in The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Ed. Peter H. Hassrick. New York, 1997, p. 41, ill.

Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 1, p. 683, no. 1081, ill.

Barbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman. O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. New York, 2001, p. 169 (app. 2: "Works Given to Institutions during the Artist's Lifetime").

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 2004, ill. between pp. 376–77.

Lisa Mintz Messinger in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 14, 205, 282, no. 193, ill. (color).

Isabelle Duvernois in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, p. 193.

Tanya Barson in Georgia O'Keeffe. Ed. Tanya Barson. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2016, p. 16, fig. 161 (color).

Wanda M. Corn. Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 2017, p. 160, fig.173 (color).

The artist (1944–59; on extended loan to MMA, 1949–59; her gift as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to MMA) (Source: The Met, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

9461

Other IDs

1081, Catalogue Raisonné