Blue Flower, 1918
Blue Flower, 1918
Pastel on paper, 20 x 16 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.11
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Vertical pastel of rich blue and green tones in bulbous, rounded shapes. At the bottom center rises a small yellow light-bulb shape, hooded and surrounded by greenish white and blue. Above this symmetrically on either side of a deep blue center are two sets of large green rounded shapes that fan upwards and outwards. In the middle is an ogre arch shape in blue, with a very dark blackish center.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
259
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Inscriptions: Verso: "Blue Flower - 1918 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite)Provenance
Estate of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe 1986 Abiquiu/New MexicoExhibition History
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Poetry of Things)
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOKM 5th Anniversary
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)
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) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Shared Intelligence; all venues
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modern Nature)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
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© Private Collection*, Gift
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