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Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
O'Keeffe, Georgia 1887-1986  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet Street Houston Texas 77005 Accession Number: 77.331
Date:
1923/1925
Notes:
"Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: natural affinities," New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 2008, pg. 39.
Lynes, Barbara Buhler, "Georgia O'Keeffe: catalogue raisonne," New Haven: Yale University Press, with the National Gallery of Art and the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999, no. 447.
Summary:
Abstract painting with two light pink vertical shapes meeting at the top, open at the center reavealing many vertical lines of blue, pink, green, and yellow. At the top, the pink shapes reverse and reach out for the upper corners, revealing a blue sky-like background.
Topic:
Abstract  Search this
Control number:
IAP 89810327
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_389836