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Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches
CR No. 564
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Bequest of Mabel Garrison Siemonn, in Memory of her Husband, George Siemonn, BMA 1964.11.13
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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
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
2007–2008
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle)
High Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle)
1937
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)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection 2025
Source System ID
8634
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by Baltimore Museum of Art in 2025.
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.
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.
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.
"Sprayed with butyl methacrylate polymer, March 1948, Keck" (Keck typed label).
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