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Oil on canvas, 48 1/8 x 30 inches
CR No. 458
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Sandra Payson
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Pale pink, purple, and orange overlapping forms create a V-like shape similar to petals opening to reveal the center of a flower. Inside the V shape are small, rounded forms that resemble soft clouds. Running down the center of the composition is a rippling stripe of white paint.
CR No. 458
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Flower Abstraction
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Flowers Abstraction
Abstraction
General Remarks
Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946" [note of inscriptions 1 and 3]. Whitney Archive indicates, "Pale pinks, blues, greens. Probably No. 130 'Abstraction' in 7 Americans exh. at Anderson Gals, March 1925." Abiquiú Notebooks notes backing inscription 2. Backing inscriptions 3, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1924. Backing inscription 2 dates 1925. Dated 1924 on basis of inclusion in 1925 New York (Anderson) exhibition. Reproduced and titled Abstraction White Iris in Expressionism in Art (1934). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "O'Keeffe / 1925" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 3. "Flowers Abstraction 1924 / by / Georgia O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
On backing board lower left in graphite: Georgia O'Keeffe/ 1925
Label on back of canvas: WMAA, Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition, October 8 - November 29, 1970
Label on back of canvas: San Francisco Museum or Art, Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective, March 19 - April 25, 1971
Label on back of canvas: An American Place, Room 1710-509 Madison Avenue, New York City, NY, Flower Abstraction
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
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)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (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)
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2003–2004
1924-1981 collection of the artist; 1981-1985 collection of Sandra Payson, New York, New York (purchased from the artist); 1981-1985 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (partial gift of Sandra Payson); 1985 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (gift of Sandra Payson)
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 15 2025
Source System ID
8546
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