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Georgia O'Keeffe
Yellow Cactus, 1929
Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR675_yellow-cactus_863439.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Yellow Cactus, 1929
Oil on canvas, 30 x 42 inches
CR No. 675
Dallas Museum of Art, the Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, bequest of Patsy Lacy Griffith
Oil on canvas, 30 x 42 inches
Dallas Museum of Art, the Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, bequest of Patsy Lacy Griffith
CR No. 675

Two bright yellow cactus flowers with delicate, rippling petals fill the frame. The petals fade from bright yellow at the center to almost white at their edges. White and gray tones fill the plain background.

CR No. 675

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Yellow Cactus

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Yellow Cactus Flower

Two Yellow Flowers, N.M.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. Pictured in 1930 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 35. Orientation based on installation photograph. Abiquiú Notebooks does not specify orientation. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: "[Ye]llow (black ink, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York") Cactus Flower – 1929 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York", red ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

1929-1953: Collection of the Artist, Abiquiu, NM
1953: with The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY
1960: William E. Scott (1899-1961), Fort Worth, TX, purchased from above
1961 - 1963: William E Scott Foundation, Fort Worth, TX, by bequest from above upon the death of above
1963-1989: Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, gift from above [1]
1989: Deaccessioned by above and sold at Sotheby's Sale (#5860), American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture Sale, 24 May 1989, lot 21, sold for $1,320,000 USD Premium
1989-1993: With Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, purchased from above sale, Stock book #APG7333 [2]
1993: Patsy Lacy Griffith (1922-2000), Dallas, TX, purchased from above [3], [4]
1998: Dallas Museum of Art, by bequest from above.

Notes:
[1] Old label affixed to backing board shows when held in the collection of the Fort Worth Art Museum, the accession number was 1963.7.9.G.P. In 1987 the Fort Worth Art Museum changed their name to The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
[2] based on old label affixed to backing board
[3] Based on a sale document in the Dallas Museum of Art object file from Hirschl & Adler dated December 22, 1993.
[4] On December 16, 1998, Patsy Lacy Griffith gave 46% of an undivided interest in the painting to the Dallas Museum of Art. Her will gave the remaining 52% undivided interest to the DMA (Dallas Museum of Art) upon her death.
(Source: Dallas Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 4/22/2026

Last verified by current collection Oct 06 2025

Source System ID

8731

Other IDs

675, Catalogue Raisonné