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Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
CR No. 599
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.2
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Spiraling grey-white tones flowing outward from the center, as if looking into a rose from an aerial view. Subject not readily identifiable as a rose as the "petals" are distinguished by tonal variations of dark black/grey blending into light grey/white.
CR No. 599
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Abstraction White Rose
Source of title: backing inscription 3.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Abstraction White
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Abstraction – White Rose
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Abstraction White Rose II
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Abstraction, White Rose II
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Abstraction, White Rose II
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted 1927. Exam at Amer. Place. March 1946." Abiquiú Notebooks notes inscriptions 1, 6. "As a matter of fact I don't wish to sell that White Rose Abstraction –– tho what I do not know" (O'Keeffe to Edith Halpert, 22 February 1950, Archive of American Art). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions; Stretcher; "[illegible words] /no glass" (unidentified hand, graphite) Backing:
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "Waxed by Mrs. Keck" (graphite)
- "Abstraction White Rose / 1927 / Oil on canvas / 36 x 30" (Label: printed, O'Keeffe (red-bordered), black ink)
- "O'Keeffe has negative" (Label: printed, O'Keeffe (red-bordered), graphite)
- "Abstraction -- White Rose / 1927 / By Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black crayon)
- "O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black crayon)
- "Abstraction -- White 1927 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: printed, The Intimate Gallery, black ink)
- "abstraction -- White Rose -- / 1927" (Andrew Droth, graphite)
- "Place glass / Storage" (George Of, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1928
1946
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Yokohama Museum of Art
1997–1998
1998–1999
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Dallas Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2003–2004
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG)
2007–2008
Norton Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Norton Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Phillips Collection
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2016–2017
2018–2019
2019
2019–2020
2020–2021
2024–2025
San Diego Museum of Art
Albuquerque Museum
Musee Des Beaux-Arts Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Boston)
Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., 1970
The artist, unknown
Estate of the artist, 1986
The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 7/2/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
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