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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Tulip, 1925
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Tulip, 1925
Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 12 inches
CR No. 478
Museum Purchase
2023.6.1
Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 12 inches
Museum Purchase
2023.6.1
CR No. 478

Vertical narrow canvas of an abstract section of a pink tulip. The upper quadrant of the picture plane encapsulates a large rounded draping petal shape in gradient shades of pink with an arc of yellow at the bottom of the form. To the left of the petal, cutting on a diagonal of the canvas, is a soft vertical bolt-like rod of blues and green along with ruffled rows of yellow shapes.

CR No. 478

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Pink Tulip

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Abstraction – #77 Tulip

Selected Exhibition Titles

Abstraction 77 (Pink Tulip)
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

Inscriptions

Signed with the initials OK in the artist's star device, titled and dated 1925 (on the original backing board) - Sotheby's New York, November 2023 From Catalogue Raisonne: Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. OK {5star} (graphite) 2. "Abstract . . . / by Georgia O'Keeffe / Price [amount scratched out]" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink) 3. "Handle with Care! / Keep Clean" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 4. "Société Anonyme Exhibition / Brooklyn Museum / Will be called / for after exhibition / George Of [ "Will be . . . Of" scratched out]" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 5. "Abstraction – #77 / by Georgia O'Keeffe – 1925 / Tulip" (Andrew Droth, Label: printed, An American Place, black ink) 6. "Abstraction – #77 / (1925)" (Andrew Droth, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

8563

Other IDs

478, Catalogue Raisonné