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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:

Wai'anapanapa Black Sand Beach, 1939-03

 Item — Box 11
Identifier: 2006.6.1109
Overview

Image with abstract composition of foaming ocean water lapping over black sand at Wai'anapanapa in Hawai'i.

Dates: 1939-03
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Wai'anapanapa, Keawaiki Bay, 1939-03

 Item — Box 11
Identifier: 2006.6.1095
Overview

Image of the ocean bay and volcanic rock with sandy shore at Wai'anapanapa, Keawaiki Bay. Includes envelope with typed address to "Doris Bry//ATLANTIS EDITIONS//11 East 73rd Street//New York, N.Y. 10021," and handwritten in large text, "HAWAII SNAPS." Envelope likely held photos with accession numbers 2006.6.1095-2006.6.1111.

Dates: 1939-03
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Walk, Ghost Ranch, 1967

 Item — Oversize 1
Identifier: 2006.6.938
Overview

Profile portrait of O'Keeffe walking her dogs on the Ghost Ranch property through native grasses and trees surrounded by hills. O'Keeffe wears a large flowered quilted jacket and a dark skirt and carries a staff-like walking stick.

Dates: 1967
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Wall in Winter, undated

 Item — Box 20: Series 2
Identifier: RC.2001.2.179a
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In 2001, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum received, as a bequest from the Estate of Maria Chabot, hundreds of letters she received from Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz between 1941 and O'Keeffe's death in 1986. Most of the letters date from the 1940s and describe the experiences Chabot and O'Keeffe shared during the years Chabot lived with O'Keeffe at the artist's Ghost Ranch house (1941-1944) and oversaw the renovation of the ruined adobe hacienda that O'Keeffe purchased in 1945 in the...
Dates: undated
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Maria Chabot Archive / Photographic Material / Photographs and Film / Miscellaneous New Mexico Subjects

War Game by William Einstein, after 1969

 Item — Box F2
Identifier: 2006.6.200
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: after 1969
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Washington D.C., probably 1946

 Item — Box 4: Series 1
Identifier: 2014.3.307
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: probably 1946
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Photographs / Photographs

Waterloo on Brighton Pier by William Einstein, after 1965

 Item — Box F2
Identifier: 2006.6.193
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: after 1965
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

Well and Chair in Patio, 1956 or 1957

 Item — Box 18
Identifier: 2006.6.1392
Overview

View of the Abiquiu courtyard with the "Butterfly Chair" and the wooden wellhead cover with a single black rock resting on it, cracked adobe wall with wooden door, a row of pavement stones on the dirt ground.

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

White House Overlook, 1957-07

 Item — Box 16
Identifier: 2006.6.1299
Overview

Overview looking down on winding road surrounded by canyon rock formations in an arid desert landscape at Canyon de Chelly.

Dates: 1957-07
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

White House Overlook, 1957-07

 Item — Box 16
Identifier: 2006.6.1302
Overview

Overview looking down on winding canyon rock formations in an arid desert landscape at Canyon de Chelly; foreground rock face has what looks like five crevices fanning out in a star pattern.

Dates: 1957-07
Found in: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Photographs

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