Georgia O'Keeffe
1918
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.2 x 19.2 cm (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 25.3 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.12
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 15A
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Key Set Number
478
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017
Bibliography
1946
Pagano, Grace. Encyclopedia Britannica, Collection of American Paintings. Chicago, 1946.
1992
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 1992: 326.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 478.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, center verso, in graphite: A; on mount, lower left verso, underlined: O'Keeffe 191[8 written over 9] / by Stieglitz
by Georgia O'Keeffe, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 15A
by later hands, center right, in graphite: 7-1944-359; lower right verso: 7-1944-359
Wikidata ID
Q64036875
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawing No. 15 Special, 1916/1917 (Lynes 154), is in the background of this photograph and the following Key Set numbers: 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 479, 480, 481, and 482.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.755
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.127.1
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2005.27.4388
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1932, New York (nos. 76–78, as Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918–1923)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 183, as Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 23a (ill., Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918)
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., “Photographer and Champion of Art,” The Saturday Review of Literature 11 (8 December 1934): 337 (ill., Georgia O’Keeffe)
Helen Appleton Read, “American Paintings of Today: Morning Glory Painted by Georgia O’Keeffe,” Woman’s Home Companion 55 (September 1938): 26–27
Hutchins Hapgood, A Victorian in the Modern World (New York, 1939): opp. 338 (ill., Georgia O’Keeffe)
“I.B.M. Stages Impressive American Art Show at New York Fair,” The Art Digest 14 (1 May 1940): 9–10 (ill., Georgia O’Keeffe)
Independent Woman 19 (November 1940): cover (ill., Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe)
Contemporary Arts of the United States: Collection of the International Business Machines Corporation [exh. cat., World’s Fair, Flushing Meadows, Queens] (New York, 1940): unpaginated (ill., untitled)
“U. W. Honors These Four at Commencement,” The Badger Quarterly 4:4 (May 1942): 1 (ill., Miss O’Keeffe)
Thomas Craven, “Stieglitz—Old Master of the Camera,” Saturday Evening Post 216:28 (8 January 1944): 15 (ill., untitled)
“Spotlight: Georgia O’Keeffe,” Arts and Decoration 44 (March 1944): 19 (ill., Georgia O’Keeffe)
Grace Pagano, The Encyclopedia Britannica: Collection of Contemporary American Painting (Chicago, 1946): unpaginated (ill., untitled)