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Georgia O'Keeffe
Bleeding Heart, 1932
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR814_bleeding-heart_786569.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Bleeding Heart, 1932
Pastel on paper-faced gray cardboard, 15 1/8 x 10 inches
CR No. 814
Gift of Anne Windfohr Marion and Anne Windfohr Grimes
1996.4.1
Pastel on paper-faced gray cardboard, 15 1/8 x 10 inches
Gift of Anne Windfohr Marion and Anne Windfohr Grimes
1996.4.1
CR No. 814

Vertical pastel with two pink flowers one atop the other rising upwards, with green leaves at bottom of work.

CR No. 814

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Bleeding Heart

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, backing inscription 2, 1933 New York (Abiquiú Notebooks American Place) exhibition checklist.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946....No signature." Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks note verso inscription 2. Abiquiú Notebooks notes verso inscription 1 and indicates, "N.F.S." Pictured in 1933 New York (An American Place) Norman installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 55A. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions Verso: 1 OK {5star} (graphite) 2 "Bleeding Heart--1932 pastel by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) Backing: none (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Pastel

Materials

Pastel on paper-faced gray cardboard

Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., 1965
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. 6, 3 December 1987
(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.)
Private collection, Fort Worth, Tex., 1987
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1996
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 4/16/2026

Source System ID

5

Other IDs

814, Catalogue Raisonné