About This Artwork

Georgia O'Keeffe
American, 1887-1986

Blue and Green Music, 1921

Oil on canvas
58.4 x 48.3 cm (23 x 18 in.)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1969.835

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, Georgia O’Keefe, January 21-February 22, 1943, cat. by Daniel Catton Rich, no. 5, p. 11.

New York, Whitney Museum of Art, Georgia O’Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition, October 8-November 29, 1970, no. 23; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, January 1-February 7, 1971; San Francisco Museum of Art, April ?, 1971.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., for exhibit "Alfred Stieglitz and Modern Art in America", 1/28 - 4/22/01

SOD 445 On loan for exhibition to "O'Keeffe and Texas" at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX 1/27/98 - 4/5/98.

SOC8182 2/8/93 The Hayward Gallery, London "Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern" 4/8-6/22/93; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City 7/15-10/1/93 RofO39577 9/30/93

Centre Georges Pompidou, for exhibit, "Sounds and Lights", Centre Georges Pompidou, 9/22/04-1/3/05

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorm Museum and Scultpure Garden, "Visual Music, 1905-2005", traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 13-May 22, 2005, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 23-September 11, 2005.

Publication History

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p.46, ill.

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Catalogue Raisonne Volume One (New Haven, Conneticut: Yale University Press; Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of American Art; Abiquiu, New Mexico: The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999), p 185, no.344.

James W. Lane and Leo Katz, The Work of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portfolio of 12 Paintings (New York, 1939), pl. 6.

Milton W. Brown, American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression (Princeton, 1955), ill. p. 126.

Lloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry, Georgia O’Keeffe (New York, 1970), p. 32 (ill.)

Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p.46, ill.

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Catalogue Raisonne Volume One (New Haven, Conneticut: Yale University Press; Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of American Art; Abiquiu, New Mexico: The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1999), p 185, no.344.

Ownership History

Given by the artist to the Art Institute through the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1969.