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Georgia O'Keeffe
Banana Flower No. II, 1934
Georgia O'Keeffe
Banana Flower No. II, 1934
Charcoal on paper, 21 7/8 x 14 1/2 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.27

Horizontal charcoal drawing of hanging banana flower from the top of the page. Some partially opening leaves curl upward, but mostly closed pointing down. Looks similar to an artichoke.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

831

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Verso: inaccessible

Provenance

(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.) Dr. Milton Gardner, New York, N.Y., 1973 (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, N.Y.) Private collection, Excelsior, Minn., 1982 Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1989 Private collection, Aspen, Colo., 1989 Christie's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 7082, lot no. 210, 23 May 1990, no sale (Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, N.Mex. and Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, N.Y.) Private collection, New York, N.Y., 1992 (Mitchell-Innes and Nash Gallery, New York, N.Y.) The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996

Exhibition History

1935 New York (An American Place), among nos. 17-20, as Drawings, Banana Flowers
1986 San Francisco, no. 3
1991 New York (Hirschl & Adler), no. 63
1994 Hamilton
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Frames of Preference / Maria Chabot / Sense of Place)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (In the American Grain)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Photography of Charles Sheeler)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
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