Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur, 1930
Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur, 1930
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 40 (76.5 x 101.6 cm) inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Extended Loan, Private Collection
L.1997.3.1
Large magnified flowers on a horizontal canvas. The maroonish black petals of the hollyhock fill entire right side of the picture plain, with the smaller blue larkspur flowers covering the rest of the canvas on the left.
DETAILS
Catalogue Raisonné Number
714
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessibleVerso: inaccessible
Backing:
1. "Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur 29" (graphite)
2. OK * (graphite)
3. "509 Madison Ave., New York" (AIC label, black ink)
4. AAP2
5. AAP11
6. "Black Hollyhock - Blue Larkspur / 1929 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (WE, AAP6, blank ink)
Provenance
Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., by 1968 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. 5, 3 December 1987 (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.)Exhibition History
1931 New York (An American Place), not on checklist or no. 18, as Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur1938 Williamsburg
1943 Chicago, no. 29
1944 Philadelphia, no. 276
1966 Fort Worth
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Poetry of Things
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Four Painters / Skunk Cabbage)
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK in Williamsburg
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (O'Keeffe's O'Keeffe's)
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) 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) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Katsina)
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modern Nature)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Abiquiu Views x 2)
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GR Views / Covarrubias)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Abstract Nature
CREDITS & RIGHTS
© Private Collection*, Extended Loan, Private Collection
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