{"classified_as":[{"_id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300033799","label":"oil paintings (visual works)","type":"Type"},{"_id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300033618","label":"paintings (visual works)","type":"Type"},{"_label":"Collection Item","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404024","type":"Type"}],"id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/object/8758","identified_by":[{"classified_as":[{"_label":"non-preferred identifiers","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264273"}],"content":"713, Catalogue Raisonné","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"catalogue raisonnée number","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026061"}],"content":"713","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"repository number","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404621"}],"content":"8758","type":"Identifier"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"preferred term","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404670"}],"content":"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur","type":"Name"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"non-preferred identifiers","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264273"}],"content":{"alternate-title":{"titles":[{"notes":"Source of title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.","title":"Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur","type":"alternate-title"}],"type":"alternate-title"},"alternate-title-1999-catalogue-raisonne":{"titles":[{"notes":"","title":"Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur","type":"alternate-title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}],"type":"alternate-title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"},"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne":{"titles":[{"notes":"Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.","title":"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur","type":"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}],"type":"title-1999-catalogue-raisonne"}},"type":"Name"}],"produced_by":{"carried_out_by":[{"_label":"Georgia O'Keeffe","id":"actor/2","type":"Actor"}],"timespan":{"type":"TimeSpan"},"type":"Production"},"referred_to_by":[{"classified_as":[{"_label":"provenance_narrative","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/provenance_narrative"}],"content":"[An American Place, New York, until 1934; sold to MMA] (Source: The Met, 2025)","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"credit line","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300026687"}],"content":"George A. Hearn Fund, 1934","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Copyright","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_copyright"}],"content":"© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Medium and Dimensions","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_medium_dims"}],"content":"Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"cr_remarks_1999","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/cr_remarks_1999"}],"content":["Whitney Archive indicates, 'Painted at Taos 1929. . . . Sold to Metropolitan Museum. Ptd. 1930.'Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1930. Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1929. Dated 1930 and completed in Taos on basis of Stieglitz–O'Keeffe correspondence. See cat. no. 714. Purchased by Metropolitan Museum of Art out of First Municipal Show in New York. Pictured in 1931 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 45. Reproduced and titled *Black Flower and Blue Iris* in *New York Herald Tribune* (March 1934) and *Arts and Decoration* (May 1934); *Black Flower \u0026 Blue Larkspur* in *Limners and Likenesses* (1936). O'Keeffe wrote: \". . . when I was at Mabel's in Taos . . . there was an alfalfa field like a large green saucer. On one side of the field was a path lined with flowers. . . . one day walking down the path I picked a large blackish red hollyhock and some bright dark blue larkspur that immediately went into a painting –– and then another painting\" (*Georgia O'Keeffe* [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 56). (Source: Lynes, 1999)"],"type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Materials description","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/materials_description"}],"content":"Oil on canvas","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Artist(s)","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_artist"}],"content":"Georgia O'Keeffe","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Measurement Description","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/measurement_description"}],"content":"36 x 30 inches","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Complete","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_complete"}],"content":"Georgia O'Keeffe. Black Flower and Blue Larkspur, 1930. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). George A. Hearn Fund, 1934. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Holding Institution","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_instituion"}],"content":"Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"selected_references","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/selected_references"}],"content":"\"Metropolitan Buys 3 Works In City Art Show.\" New York Herald Tribune (March 26, 1934), p. 17, ill., as \"Black Flower and Blue Iris\". \n \n\"Obstreperous Art.\" Arts and Decoration XLI (May 1934), p. 36, ill., as \"Black Flower and Blue Iris\". \n \nE[manuel]. M. Benson. \"A New Yorker Looks His Museums in the Face.\" American Magazine of Art 27 (October 1934), p. 538. \n \nWilliam M. Ivins, Jr. et al. \"Notes.\" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 29 (April 1934), p. 67. \n \nAlan Burroughs. Limners and Likenesses: Three Centuries of American Painting. Cambridge, Mass., 1936, pp. 183, 212, fig. 162, as \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \n\"On the Local Horizons.\" New York Times (June 21, 1936), p. X7. \n \n\"FSCW to Sponsor Exhibit of Art at Jacksonville.\" Tallahassee Democrat (February 27, 1941), p. 10, calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \n\"Picture of the Month.\" Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin (April 1944), unpaginated, ill. \n \nHolger Cahill. \"In Our Time.\" Magazine of Art 39 (November 1946), p. 313, ill., calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \nCharles L. Fontenay. \"Dr. Dutch's Talk, Preview Mark Exhibit Opening.\" Nashville Tennessean (October 8, 1949), p. 5, calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \n\"To Be Shown in Columbia.\" Times and Democrat (November 1, 1949), p. 6, calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \nOf Art and Nature. Exh. cat., East Hampton, N.Y. Guild Hall. East Hampton, N.Y., 1961, unpaginated, no. 21, ill. front and back covers. \n \nHenry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 131–32, ill., as \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \nDoris Reno. \"Miami's Old 17th Century Friend Found Shining in a New Setting.\" Miami Herald (August 22, 1965), p. 21E, calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \nNora B. Beeson. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1972, p. 279. \n \nHenry Geldzahler. Arte del Siglo Veinte: EE.UU. del Museo Metropolitano de Arte/ Twentieth-Century Art: U.S.A. from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., El Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. San Juan, 1974, pp. 35–36, no. 12, ill. \n \nGeorgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1976, text facing pl. 56, artist recalls creating this picture and a similar canvas (1930, private collection, Buhler Lynes 1999 no. 714) during the summer of 1929 in Taos, New Mexico. \n \nHelen A. Harrison in Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N. Y., 1977, p. 16, no. 7, ill. \n \nHelen A. Harrison in La Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Brussels, 1978, unpaginated, no. 7, ill. and ill. front cover (color), reprints Ref. Harrison 1977. \n \nHenry Geldzahler. Twelve Americans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., New York State Senate, Albany. New York, 1980, pp. 20–21, ill. \n \nWilliam S. Lieberman in Twelve Americans from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., New York State Senate, Albany. New York, 1980, p. 3. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. \"Georgia O'Keeffe.\" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), p. 34, fig. 35 (color). \n \nPhilippe de Montebello. \"[Director's Note].\" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), p. 2. \n \nElyse Topalian. \"Modern Art in the Met.\" Apollo 124 (October 1986), p. 362, calls it \"Black Hollyhock and Blue Larkspur\". \n \nLaurie Lisle. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Albuquerque, 1986, p. 215, calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \nCharles C. Eldredge in Art in New Mexico, 1900–1945: Path to Taos and Santa Fe. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1986, p. 165, fig. 190. \n \nErika Billeter. \"Georgia O'Keeffe's Bilder.\" Du (May 1987), pp. 37–38, ill. (color). \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 58, 62, fig. 42 (color). \n \nMichael Berry. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, p. 76, as \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\". \n \n\"Picture the Past: Georgia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz and the Met.\" Column 2 (September/October 1988), unpaginated, as \"Black Hollyhock and Blue Larkspur\". \n \nRoxana Robinson. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. New York, 1989, p. 403, calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Iris\". \n \nElizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1993, ill. p. 51 (color). \n \nLucy Belloli. \"The Effects of Time: Georgia O'Keeffe's 'Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur'.\" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 51 (Winter 1993–94), pp. 38–43, figs. 1–4, 6–7 (color and bw, overall and details, diagram of hermetically-sealed box containing the painting). \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger in The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Ed. Peter H. Hassrick. New York, 1997, p. 38, calls it \"Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur\"; compares it to the private collection version of the same motif (Buhler Lynes 1999, no. 714); discusses the iconography of the private collection version (on p. 75) in the context of nineteenth-century American flower paintings. \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 1, p. 430, no. 713, ill. (color); vol. 2, p. 1121, fig. 41 (checklist), p. 1122, fig. 45 (installation view, Exh. New York 1931), calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur (Black Hollyhock and Blue Larkspur)\" and dates it 1930. \n \nElsa Mezvinsky Smithgall in Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection. Washington, D. C., 1999, p. 112. \n \nLisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2001, p. 117, fig. 77 (color), calls it \"Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur\". \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes in Georgia O'Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist's First Public Exhibition in the South. Ed. Bonnie G. Kelm and Ann C. Madonia. Exh. cat., Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary. Williamsburg, VA, 2001, pp. 42, 45 n. 8, fig. 15 (color), calls it \"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur\" and dates it 1930. \n \nHunter Drohojowska-Philp. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 2004, pp. 324, 353, calls it \"Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur\" [no comma] on p. 324. \n \nSusan Wright. Georgia O'Keeffe: An Eternal Spirit. (1st ed., 1996). [New York], 2006, p. 80, ill. (color). \n \nBarbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Collections. New York, 2007, p. 152. \n \nSarah Greenough, ed. My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Vol. 1, 1915–1933. New Haven, Conn., 2011, p. 546.","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"description statement","id":"https://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416"}],"content":"A large black hollyhock with velvety petals and a white center fills the frame. Below the hollyhock, three blue larkspur flowers (also known as delphinium) line the bottom edge of the composition. Bits of gray background appear surrounding the flowers.","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"Caption - Title and Date","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/caption_title_date"}],"content":"Black Flower and Blue Larkspur, 1930","type":"LinguisticObject"},{"classified_as":[{"_label":"cr_remarks_post_1999","id":"https://data.okeeffemuseum.org/terms/local/cr_remarks_post_1999"}],"content":["Lynes publication dates work 1930. The Met dates it 1929 (Source: The Met, 2025)."],"type":"LinguisticObject"}],"representation":[{"digitally_shown_by":[{"access_point":[{"id":"https://iiif.okeeffemuseum.org/image/iiif/2/884922/full/full/0/default.jpg","type":"DigitalObject"}],"classified_as":[{"_label":"Digital Image","id":"http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300215302","type":"Type"}],"digitally_available_via":[{"access_point":[{"id":"https://iiif.okeeffemuseum.org/image/iiif/2/884922"}],"conforms_to":[{"id":"http://iiif.io/api/image","type":"InformationObject"}],"format":"application/ld+json;profile='http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json'","type":"DigitalService"}],"type":"DigitalObject"}],"type":"VisualItem"}],"type":"HumanMadeObject"}