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Oil on canvas, 29 x 18 inches
CR No. 476
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A reddish orange canna flower with layers of overlapping petals stretches across the composition. The silky petals contrast with a plain white background.
CR No. 476
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Red Canna
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, backing inscription 2, 4.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Flame – Colored Canna
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
General Remarks
Double entries Whitney Archive. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946. . . . Note: The 3rd exhibition was in 1926, for which we have no catalogue. Therefore date must be 1925." Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Note: Mr. Phillips returned this painting to O'Keeffe. Probably one of the cannas in 1924 exh. & ptd. About 1923. Or possibly one of 1919 cannas." Backing inscriptions date 1924. Whitney Archive dates 1922 and 1925. Possibly the work Straus returned in exchange for cat. no. 576. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1925. Reproduced and titled Flame–colored Canna in A Collection in the Making (1926). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (black crayon) 2. "Red Canna – 1924 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: printed, The Intimate Gallery, black ink) 3. "Label: printed, The Intimate Gallery" (second label) 4. "Red Canna – 1924 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
(Alfred Stiegltiz, New York, NY); Flora Stieglitz Straus, New York, NY, 1920s?; The artist, return, 1953?; (Doris Bry, New York, NY); Private collection, Woodmere, New York, 1969; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 6374, lot no. 169, 3 December 1982, no sale; (Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
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Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8561
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