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Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Flower, 1919, 1918–1919
Courtesy of Norton Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR305_red-flower_862717.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Flower, 1919, 1918–1919
Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches
CR No. 305
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Purchase, the Esther B. O’Keeffe Charitable Foundation, 96.5
Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Purchase, the Esther B. O’Keeffe Charitable Foundation, 96.5
CR No. 305

A large red flower blossoms against an abstract background made up of narrow white and blue forms. A rounded purple form encircles the flower.

CR No. 305

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Red Flower

Source of title: stretcher inscription 1, Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. Stretcher inscription 2 dates 1919 and indicates no. 81 in 1923 New York (Anderson) exhibition, pictured in Stieglitz installation photographs, see Appendix III, figures 19, 20. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: 1. "Red Flower" (graphite) 2. "81 / 1919" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 3. "O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 4. "Stieglitz #18" (George Of, graphite). Verso: inaccessible. Backing: "Georgia O'Keeffe" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

The artist, ACA Galleries, NY, purchase, 1979; Dr Thomas Lane Stokes, Norfolk, VA, 1979; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., NY, 1996; Norton Museum of Art, 1996
(Source: Norton Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/5/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 23 2025

Source System ID

8414

Other IDs

305, Catalogue Raisonné