Bella Donna, 1939
Bella Donna, 1939
Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 30 1/8 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Extended loan, private collection
L.1997.3.3
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Two large swirling white flowers, one atop the other. The interior of the bottom flower is visible, yet the top flower is tilted upward hiding its center. The two flowers fill the majority of the canvas, with a sliver of blue - perhaps an ocean horizon line along the top.
DETAILS
Catalogue Raisonné Number
966
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: inaccessible
Backing: "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave. - N.Y. / Ditura - Hawaii / (1938) / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink)
Provenance
Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., 1970s 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. 8, 3 December 1987 (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe., N.Mex.)Exhibition History
1940 New York (An American Place--O'Keeffe), no. 3, as Bella Donna--Hanna [sic]1963 New York (American Academy of AL), no. 18
1990 Honolulu, no. 4
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) 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)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Celebration of New Work)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Color and Conservation
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Living Artists: Sherrie Levine)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Circling Around Abstraction)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (WSC)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and the Camera)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (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)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway) *deinstalled 4/19/13 and replaced by CR# 730
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) OK and AA; The Hawaii Pictures
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Abiquiu Views: Patio)*late addition
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GR Views / Covarrubias)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Extended Loan, Private Collection
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