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Oil on canvas, 48 x 40 inches
CR No. 815
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.35
1996.1.1
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Large white flower dominant in center of canvas. Green leaves surrounding flower. Floating in a blue sky background.
CR No. 815
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Jimson Weed
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
White Flower No. 1
Alternate Title
Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1
Source of title: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Jimson Weed
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946.... No signature. Note: Miss O'Keeffe calls this `Jimson Weed." Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks title 'White Flower No. 2' and associate it with entry no. 10 in 1933 New York (An American Place) exhibition. No. 10 was cat. no. 816. Backing inscriptions dates 1931. Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1932. Dated 1932 on basis of inclusion in 1933 New York (An American Place) exhibition and Stieglitz—O'Keeffe correspondence; pictured in Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix HI, figure 53. Titled Morning Glory in Woman's Home Companion (September 1938). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Backing inscriptions dates 1931. WA, DA, AN date 1932. Dated 1932 on basis of inclusion in 1933 New York (An American Place) exhibition and Stieglitz—O'Keeffe correspondence; pictured in Stieglitz installation photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
Yokohama Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: American & Modern)
2013–2014
Hyde Collection Art Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
North Carolina Museum of Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
New Britain Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
1941
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Contemporary Painting in the United States: A Special Exhibition)
Rockefeller Center (as Contemporary Painting in the United States: A Special Exhibition)
1946
1997–1998
Anita O’Keeffe Young [1891-1985] (Artist’s sister), Newport, RI, before 1966; Estate of Anita O’Keeffe Young and Robert R. Young Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, 1985; to (Sotheby’s, New York, NY), December 3, 1987, lot 7; purchased by Gerald P. Peters and Kathleen K. Peters, Santa Fe, NM, 1987; to (Sotheby’s, New York, NY), December 1, 1994, lot 83; purchased by Private Collection, Santa Fe, NM, 1994; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM); purchased by Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, TX; given to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, 1996; to (Sotheby’s, New York, NY), November 20, 2014, sale N09229, lot 11; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2014 (Source: Crystal Bridges, 2025)
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Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection 2025
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