Some Memories of Drawings

Artist O'Keeffe, Georgia (1887 - 1986)

Date1974

DimensionsFolding Box (a): 9 × 6 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (22.9 × 16.5 × 3.8 cm)
sheet (b-c,e-k,m-s,u-w, each): 8 1/4 × 6 in. (21 × 15.2 cm)
mat (d,l,t,x, each): 8 1/4 × 6 in. (21 × 15.2 cm)
sheet (d,l,t, each): 7 × 5 1/4 in. (17.8 × 13.3 cm)
sheet (x): 6 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (16.5 × 14 cm)

ClassificationsART, 2-DIMENSIONAL

Credit LineClara S. Peck Fund

Object number2020.7.2a-x

DescriptionPortfolio of 21 lithographs on paper in (a) publisher's folding box of half art vellum over patterned paper; includes (b) sewn text booklet with half-title, title, introduction, "Epigraph," and introduction by artist; (c) colophon on separate bifolium folder; (d-y) 21 very fine 300-line offset lithographs of drawings on Arches Silkscreen, each in bifolium folder; most with commentary by O'Keeffe on first page; designed and printed by Leonard Baskin; with (d-y dup.) extra set of plates printed on Meriden Bristol; (d) ""Blue Line" (1) from 1916 watercolor; (e) "Drawing No.14" (2) from 1916 charcoal drawing; (f) "Abstraction IX" (3) from 1916 charcoal drawing; (g) "Drawing No.8" (4) from 1916 charcoal drawing; (h) "Drawing No.9" (5) from 1915 charcoal drawing; (i) "Drawing No.15" (6) from 1916 charcoal drawing; (j) "Drawing No.13" (7) from 1915 charcoal drawing; (k) "Drawing" (8) from 1917 charcoal drawing; (l) "Drawing No.12" (9) from 1917 charcoal drawing; (m) "Drawing No.17" (10) from 1919 charcoal drawing; (n) "Eagle Claw and Bear Necklace" (11) from 1914 charcoal drawing; (o) "Drawing No.40" (12) from 1934 pencil drawing; (p) "Banana Flower" (13) from 1933 charcoal drawing; (q) "The City (New York Rooftops)" (14) from 1930s charcoal drawing; (r) "Beauford Delaney" (15) from early 1940s(?) charcoal drawing; (s) "Goat's Horn" from 1945 charcoal drawing; (t) "Ram's Horn II" (17) from 1949 charcoal drawing; (u) "Drawing I" (18) from 1959 charcoal drawing; (v) "Drawing III" (19) from 1959 charcoal drawing; (w) "Antelope Horns" (20) from 1954 pencil drawing; (x) "The Winter Road" (21) from 1963 oil on canvas painting.

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