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White Flower
1929
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
American Painting and Sculpture
White Flower, 1929. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986). Oil on canvas; framed: 80 x 95.3 x 4.5 cm (31 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 76.2 x 91.5 cm (30 x 36 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1930.2162 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Apparently this was the first flower painting by O'Keeffe to be purchased by an art museum.
- Maker/Artist
- O'Keeffe, Georgia
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 80 x 95.3 x 4.5 cm (31 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 91.5 cm (30 x 36 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Stretcher: "White Flower -- 1929 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (AS, graphite) Backing: "White Flower -- 1929 (oil) by Georgia O'Keeffe Price $8,000 To be returned to Geo. F. Of 126 W 57th NY NY ['To be returned...NY' twice]" (AS, AAP2, black ink)
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1930.2162
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- Autumn Flower Show, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today, The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-35, Art of the Twenties: American Painting at the Crossroads, Circa 1930, The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift, The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art, Georgia O'Keeffe: Naturalezas Intimas, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life, Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer, Flint, MI, Flint Institute of Arts, Art of the Twenties: American Painting at the Crossroads, (1978), p 55-56, no 41, illus. color p. 43., Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy and London, Hayward Gallery, The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-1935, (1977), no 97., Kohler Gallery, Dahland Fine Arts Center, Milton College, Milton WI, Georgia O'Keeffe, 12th Annual Festival of the Arts (20 April-10 May 1965), illus., Buffalo, Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, The Art of Today: An Exhibition of Contemporary Pictures and Sculptures Arranged and Sponsored by the Women's Advisory Committee of the Albright Art Gallery (1935), Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Tenth Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings (1930), New York, An American Place, Georgia O'Keeffe: 27 New Paintings, New Mexico, New York, Lake George, Etc. (1930), exh. checklist no. 9 as White Flower, N.M., see Lynes (1999), pp. 404, 1164.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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