White Bird of Paradise, 1939
White Bird of Paradise, 1939
Oil on canvas, 19 x 16 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of Jean Holmes McDonald
2009.2.1
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Large white bird of paradise flower surrounded by a background of purple, purple-grey and reddish-gray color.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
973
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: 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, 1977Exhibition History
1940 New York (An American Place - O'Keeffe), no. 1, as White Bird of Paradise Flower; 1990 Honolulu, no. 72009 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
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Gift, © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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