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Georgia O'Keeffe
Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, 1932
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, 1932
Oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1996.1.1

Large white flower dominant in center of canvas. Green leaves surrounding flower. Floating in a blue sky background.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

815

Inscriptions

Backing inscriptions dates 1931. WA, DA, AN date 1932. Dated 1932 on basis of inclusion in 1933 New York (An American Place) exhibition and Stieglitz—O'Keeffe correspondence; pictured in Stieglitz installation photograph.

Provenance

Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., before 1966 Estate of Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, 1985 Robert R. Young Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985 Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 5658, lot no. 7, 3 December 1987 Gerald and Kathleen Peters, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1987 Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 6633, lot no. 83, 1 December 1994 Private collection, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1994 (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.) The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996

Exhibition History

1933 New York, (An American Place), n0. 2, as White Flower No. 1
1937 New York (American Woman's), n0. 22
1941 New York (Metropolitan), no. 125?
1946 New York (MOMA-Retro), no. 44
1970 New York (Whitney), no. 76
1993 London (Hayward), no. 59
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Poetry of Things)
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (O'Keeffe's O'Keeffe's)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Shared Intelligence)
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modern Nature)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) The Garden
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