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Georgia O'Keeffe
Blue Flower, 1918
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Blue Flower, 1918
Pastel on paper, 20 x 16 inches
CR No. 259
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.11
Pastel on paper, 20 x 16 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
2007.1.11
CR No. 259

Vertical pastel of rich blue and green tones in bulbous, rounded shapes. At the bottom center rises a small yellow light-bulb shape, hooded and surrounded by greenish white and blue. Above this symmetrically on either side of a deep blue center are two sets of large green rounded shapes that fan upwards and outwards. In the middle is an ogre arch shape in blue, with a very dark blackish center.

CR No. 259

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Blue Flower

Source of title: verso inscription.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. Dated 1918 on basis of inscription; completed after June move to New York. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Verso: "Blue Flower - 1918 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Pastel

Materials

Pastel on paper

Extended Medium Description

Pastel on moderately thick, white, slightly textured laid paper mounted to grey cardboard
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)

Estate of the artist, 1986 (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)

Credits & Rights

© Private Collection*

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

164

Other IDs

259, Catalogue Raisonné