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Georgia O'Keeffe
White Bird of Paradise, 1939
Georgia O'Keeffe
White Bird of Paradise, 1939
Oil on canvas, 19 x 16 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of Jean Holmes McDonald
2009.2.1

Large white bird of paradise flower surrounded by a background of purple, purple-grey and reddish-gray color.
DETAILS

Catalogue Raisonné Number

973

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible
Backing:
1. "Georgia O'Keeffe" (OKW, black ink)
2. "1. White Bird of Paradise Flower" (AAP5)
3. "White Bird of Paradise Hawaii" (AD, graphite)

Provenance

(Doris Bry, New York, NY) John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 1976 Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977 Private Collection, Mission Hills, Kansas, 1977

Exhibition History

1940 New York (An American Place - O'Keeffe), no. 1, as White Bird of Paradise Flower; 1990 Honolulu, no. 7
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) OK and AA; The Hawaii Pictures
2015 New Mexico Museum of Art, Sept 11, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, Georgia O'Keeffe in Process
CREDITS & RIGHTS

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift


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Source System ID

1148