# @whitneymuseum on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGJ6zJDuzqM
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33971110-whitneymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-02-17T01:10:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Whitney Museum of American Art (@whitneymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/whitneymuseum

## Caption

Georgia O'Keeffe's Ladder to the Moon (1958) is on view in our seventh floor collection galleries. 🪜🌙

O'Keeffe wrote, "At the Ranch house there is a strong handmade ladder to the roof . . . One evening I was waiting for a friend and stood leaning against the ladder looking at the long dark line of the Pedernal. The sky was a pale greenish blue, the high moon looking white in the evening sky. Painting the ladder had been in my mind for a long time and there it was—with the dark Pedernal and the high white moon—all ready to be put down the next day."
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#GeorgiaOKeeffe, Ladder to the Moon, 1958. Oil on canvas, 40 3/16 × 30 1/4 × 1 3/8 in. (102.1 × 76.8 × 3.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau P.2010.216a-b. © 2025 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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