No. 16 Special
Georgia O'Keeffe
1918
Medium
charcoal on laid paper
Dimensions
62.9 x 45.1 cm (24 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
Accession Number
1992.89.12
About the Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) is one of the most significant and original figures in the history of American art, a painter whose career spanned more than seven decades and whose work transformed how American artists engaged with the natural world and with abstraction. Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, she received rigorous academic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art S...