Which museum holds Georgia O'Keeffe's 1919 painting Blue and Green Music?

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The Art Institute of Chicago holds Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1919 painting Blue and Green Music.

Blue and Green Music is an abstract oil painting from 1919, a period when O'Keeffe was making works that used flowing forms and color relationships rather than depicting a clearly identifiable object. The painting’s title connects the visual experience of color and movement with music, a common modernist idea in which nonrepresentational art could suggest rhythm or sound.

The Art Institute of Chicago owns the work and displays it within the context of modern art. O'Keeffe had studied at the institution as a young woman from 1905 to 1906, so the museum’s collection gives the painting an especially notable connection to an early stage of her education.

Blue and Green Music is sometimes confused with later O'Keeffe works whose titles also use color pairs. Museum ownership is a separate fact from where a painting was created or first exhibited. The painting was made in the United States and is now part of a major Chicago collection.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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