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Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Radiator Building—Night, New York
Georgia O'Keeffe painted the recently constructed Radiator Building at night with its dazzling lights piercing through New York's dark fog. Notice Alfred Stieglitz's name in hazy red neon. This could liken Stieglitz's stature to the skyscraper itself: a larger-than-life monument of innovation and a portrait. Or perhaps O'Keeffe was poking fun at her husband's known boasting that his art galleries were under-advertised.
- Joel Settlemoir, student at the University of Arkansas School of Art
ArtistGeorgia O'Keeffe(1887-1986)
Date1927
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions49 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.
Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
ClassificationPainting
ProvenanceArtist; to Alfred Stieglitz (her husband); to Artist (his wife); to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1949; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, as co-owners, 2012
On ViewNo
This artwork's face covers about 214× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.
