Petunia No. 2, 1924
Petunia No. 2, 1924
Oil on canvas, 36 1/16 x 30 1/8 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and Gerald and Kathleen Peters
1996.3.2
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Large lavender-purple flower in center foreground with dark arc above. Purple flower buds lower left. The diagonal arc is concealing the lower part of a second purple flower in upper half of painting.
DETAILS
Catalogue Raisonné Number
462
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Backing:1. OK * (graphite)
2. "Petunia...[number torn away]/by Georgia O'Keeffe / 1924 / #122 Catalogue / Exhib. 7 Americans - 1925" (AS, graphite)
3. "$6000" (AS, black crayon)
4. "For Cleveland" (AS, graphite)
5. "Petunia #2 / Georgia O'Keeffe / 1924" (AS, AAP2 black crayon)
Stretcher: none
Verso: none
Provenance
(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., 1972 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. 1, 3 December 1987 Gerald and Kathleen Peters, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1989 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1995 (partial share)Exhibition History
1925 Ne York (Anderson, no. 122, as Petunia - No. 21927 Brooklyn, no. 9
1993 London (Hayward), no 53
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) The Poetry of Things
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) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2011 Europe (Rome, Munich, Helsinki) GOK: Retrospective
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Modern Nature
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