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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to still images produced from radiation-sensitive materials (sensitive to light, electron beams, or nuclear radiation), generally by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film, paper, glass, or metal. Photographs may be positive or negative, opaque or transparent. The concept does not include reproductive prints of documents and technical drawings, for which descriptors found under "

Found in 1941 Collections and/or Records:

Salita Door, 1956 or 1957

 Item — See Curatorial
Identifier: 2006.6.1406
Overview

Abstract graphic composition of the salita door at O'Keeffe's Abiquiu house. O'Keeffe frames the photograph as a flat adobe textured wall with the doorway as a black vertical rectangle; a large diagonal shadow cuts across the wall from viewer upper right to viewer left, a large chamisa bush is in the lower left corner.

Dates: 1956 or 1957
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Salita Door, 1956 or 1957

 Item — Box 18
Identifier: 2006.6.1408
Overview

Flat abstract view of the black Salita door against the textured adobe wall at the Abiquiu house; triangular shadow cuts across the picture plane, chamisa bush in lower left corner.

Dates: 1956 or 1957
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Salita Door, 1956 or 1957

 Item — Box 18
Identifier: 2006.6.1407
Overview

Abstract graphic composition of the salita door at O'Keeffe's Abiquiu house. O'Keeffe frames the photograph as a flat adobe textured wall with the doorway as a black vertical rectangle; a large diagonal shadow cuts across the wall from viewer upper right to viewer left, a large chamisa bush is in the lower left corner.

Dates: 1956 or 1957
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Salita Door, Patio, 1956 or 1957, 1958-12 or 1959-01

 Item — Box 1: Series 1
Identifier: RC.2006.1.47
Overview

Sent to Charles Wickham Moore as 1959 New Year’s greeting. Handwritten by GOK in black ink on verso: "Just to remind you of//Abiquiu and greet you//for Xmas and 59//Sorry you do not come.//I can't promise anything as//funny as Alans Story but//it is good here as you know//G."

Dates: 1956 or 1957; Modified: 1958-12 or 1959-01
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Letters to Charles Wickham Moore / Letters to Charles Wickham Moore / Letters

Sculpture by Mary Callery in snow, undated

 Item — Box 3: Series 1
Identifier: 2014.3.257
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection comprises almost 200 photographs, including copy prints, film, contact sheets, documentary photographs, and personal snap shots, all relating to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe. Many photographs are of O'Keeffe or her New Mexico properties. Part of this collection was accessioned into the Museum's art collection, including fine art photography by such artists as Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Todd Webb, and Philip Halsman. Those photographs...
Dates: undated
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Photographs / Photographs

Sculpture by Mary Callery in snow, undated

 Item — Box 3: Series 1
Identifier: 2014.3.258
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The collection comprises almost 200 photographs, including copy prints, film, contact sheets, documentary photographs, and personal snap shots, all relating to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe. Many photographs are of O'Keeffe or her New Mexico properties. Part of this collection was accessioned into the Museum's art collection, including fine art photography by such artists as Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Todd Webb, and Philip Halsman. Those photographs...
Dates: undated
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Photographs / Photographs

Sculpture, Persepolis, Iran, 1950

 Item — Box 1A
Identifier: 2006.6.137
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection contains over 1100 photographs, including copy prints, contact sheets, film, and Polaroids relating to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe. The collection includes photography by O'Keeffe that reflects her daily life and photography interests, as well as photography of O'Keeffe and her properties, artwork, and travel. A small portion of the collection relates to The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and the catalogue raisonne. Copy prints in the collection are often by fine art...
Dates: 1950
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Sculpture, Persepolis, Iran, 1950

 Item — Box 1A
Identifier: 2006.6.140
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection contains over 1100 photographs, including copy prints, contact sheets, film, and Polaroids relating to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe. The collection includes photography by O'Keeffe that reflects her daily life and photography interests, as well as photography of O'Keeffe and her properties, artwork, and travel. A small portion of the collection relates to The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and the catalogue raisonne. Copy prints in the collection are often by fine art...
Dates: 1950
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Seagram Building, New York, between 1958 and 1965

 Item — Box 16
Identifier: 2006.6.1290
Overview

View of a modern skyscraper, Seagram Building, looking upward. The metal and glass of the windows create an expansive pattern of geometric squares.

Dates: between 1958 and 1965
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Shan Garfield at Abiquiu house, probably 1970

 Item
Identifier: 2015.1.62
Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Frances O'Brien Papers Relating to Georgia O'Keeffe contains materials collected by Frances O'Brien. The materials document the friendship between the two women from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s.There are approximately one hundred original letters, postcards, and telegrams from O'Keeffe to O'Brien dating from 1947 to 1971. Additionally, there are photocopies of letters from O'Keeffe to O'Brien (only a few photocopies for which there is no original), as well as photocopies...
Dates: probably 1970
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Frances O'Brien Papers Relating to Georgia O'Keeffe / Photographic Material / Photographs of and by Brian Garfield, Frances O'Brien, and Georgia O'Keeffe, digital images

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