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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Tulip, 1926
Courtesy of Baltimore Museum of Art.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Tulip, 1926
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
CR No. 564
Bequest of Mabel Garrison Siemonn, in Memory of her Husband, George Siemonn, BMA 1964.11.13
Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
Bequest of Mabel Garrison Siemonn, in Memory of her Husband, George Siemonn, BMA 1964.11.13
CR No. 564

A large, pale pink tulip sweeps across the canvas. One of its petals has begun to fall, revealing a bright yellow and green center. A rippling, leaflike form in shades of green, yellow, and blue runs diagonally along the lefthand side of the canvas.

CR No. 564

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Pink Tulip

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, backing inscription 1.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Tulip

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

General Remarks

Abiquiú Notebooks notes inscription 1 and indicates, "Back: OK initials in circle [not verified]. In her writing: 'Tulip 1926'" [not verified]. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: "Stieglitz #J / #8 O'Keefe / G 38 gl 58" (George Of, graphite). Backing: 1. "Pink Tulip – 1926 / O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black crayon) 2. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York"1 [twice] 3. "Tulip 1926 / 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)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1964; Mabel Garrison Siemonn, New York, by purchase, 1960; from The Downtown Gallery, New York (Source: BMA, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection 2025

Source System ID

8634

Other IDs

564, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by Baltimore Museum of Art in 2025.

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

The support is a medium-weight, plain weave canvas which is tensioned onto a four-member stretcher. In 1998 Dr. Barbara Buhler Lynes noted the following inscriptions in pencil on the stretcher verso, and attributed the handwriting of the inscriptions to George Of: Steiglitz #J #8 Okeefe 38[?] 58 [?] A thin, white ground layer is present overall and occasionally visible in the composition. On top of the exposed ground one can find faint graphite underdrawing at the perimeter of forms. O’Keeffe varied her paint application among colors and forms: the transparent green paint is applied in a thin, washy manner, while opaque white and pink paints were applied more thickly and then vigorously worked, leading to a purposeful texture that obscures the canvas weave. The surface of the painting has a lightly glossy, even appearance. A paper label on the painting’s backing board indicates that the painting was varnished with a synthetic resin by Caroline and Sheldon Keck. The painting is framed in its original silver gilt clamshell frame designed by George Of.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

Paper label on upper right of original backing board: “sprayed with butyl methacrylate polymer, March, 1948, by [Sheldon and Caroline] Keck.” Minor inpainting of drying cracks and consolidation were undertaken in preparation for exhibition and loan.

REPORT NOTES

Published with corresponding artwork entry in Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Lynes, 1999), this historical conservation information documents treatment decisions made during the artist’s lifetime. Lynes quotes information found on backing labels, and, when noted, from other sources.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

"Sprayed with butyl methacrylate polymer, March 1948, Keck" (Keck typed label).