What was Georgia O'Keeffe's 1927 painting of a skyscraper called?

Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1927 skyscraper painting is titled Radiator Building—Night, New York. It depicts the American Radiator Building in Manhattan glowing against a dark urban setting.

The building was an important New York landmark, and O'Keeffe transformed its architecture into a dramatic composition of geometric shapes, intense color, and nocturnal atmosphere. The work belongs to her period of engagement with the modern city, when skyscrapers and other urban structures became recurring subjects.

The painting is sometimes confused with works showing the Empire State Building, but the subject here is the American Radiator Building. The title’s “New York” is part of the work’s formal title and distinguishes the scene from O'Keeffe’s later desert landscapes.

O'Keeffe’s city paintings demonstrate that her art was not limited to flowers and New Mexico. She also explored Manhattan’s vertical architecture, using simplified forms and bold contrasts to give a familiar building an almost abstract presence.