Corn, Dark , No. 1
In the summer of 1924, O’Keeffe painted three pictures, using the same color schemes and narrow formats, of the corn stalks growing in her Lake George garden. More than fifty years later she remembered "the light-colored veins of the dark green leaves reaching out in opposite directions. And every morning a little drop of dew would run down the veins into the center of this plant like a little lake—all fine and fresh."
Artwork Details
- Title: Corn, Dark , No. 1
- Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- Date: 1924
- Medium: Oil on wood fiberboard
- Dimensions: 31 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (80.6 × 30.2 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1950
- Object Number: 50.236.1
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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