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Georgia O'Keeffe

First Drawing of the Blue Lines, 1916

Not on View

Medium

charcoal on laid paper

Dimensions

62.9 x 47.9 cm (24 3/4 x 18 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Lynes 1999, no. 62

Accession Number

1992.89.11

Artists / Makers

Georgia O'Keeffe (artist) American, 1887 - 1986

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Inscription

on verso in graphite: Georgia O'Keeffe First drawing of the Blue Lines, 1916

Marks and Labels

blind stamp lower right: STRATHMORE, PAPER

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1986; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiguiu, New Mexico, 1991, gift to NGA, 1992

Associated Names

O'Keeffe Foundation, Georgia, The

Exhibition History

1987: "Georgia O'Keeffe," National Gallery of Art, Washington, November 1, 1987 - February 23, 1988. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, March 5 - June 19, 1988; Dallas Museum of Art, July 31 - October 16, 1988; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 18, 1988- February 5, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 2 - June 18, 1989. (Exhibited only at AIC, Dallas, the Met.)

1992: "Two Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs," The Phillips Collection, Washington, December 12, 1992 - April 4, 1993. Traveled to: IBM Gallery of Science and Arts, New York, April 27 - June 26, 1993; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17 - September 12, 1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2 - December 5, 1993.

2001: "O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection", Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001, no. 4.

2004: "Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: 1905-1930", Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2004-2005, no. 148.

2009: "Georgia O'Keeffe and Abstraction," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 17, 2009 - January 17, 2010. Traveled to: the Phillips, Collection, Washington, D.C., February 6 - May 9, 2010; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, May 28 - September 12, 2010, no. 6. (Exhibited only at the Whitney.)

Bibliography

1999: Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. New Haven and London: 1999, no. 62.

2009: Haskell, Barbara, ed. Georgia O'Keeffe and Abstraction. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2009-2010, New Haven, 2009, no. 6.

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