No. 16 Special
1918
Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist, American, 1887 - 1986
Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal on laid paper
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Credit Line
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
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Dimensions
62.9 x 45.1 cm (24 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
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Accession Number
1992.89.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lynes 1999, no. 251
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Copyright
© Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estate of the artist, 1986; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiguiu, New Mexico, 1991, gift to NGA, 1992
Associated Names
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.
1993
"Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern," The Hayward Gallery, London, April 8 - June 27, 1993. Traveled to: El Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, July 15 - October 1, 1993; and Yokahama Museum of Art, Japan, October 30, 1993 - January 16, 1994, no. 7.
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. 10. (Exhibited only in Santa Fe.)
Bibliography
1987
Cowart, Jack, Juan Hamilton, and Sarah Greenough. Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1989. Washington, DC, 1987: no. 28.
1999
Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. New Haven and London: 1999, no. 251.
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. 10.
2016
World War I and American Art. Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 2016-2017: 64, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q64571681