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Oil on canvas, 30 x 42 inches
CR No. 675
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Dallas Museum of Art, the Patsy Lacy Griffith Collection, bequest of Patsy Lacy Griffith
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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
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
1975
1977
1984
1986–1987
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)
2011–2012
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Retrospective)
2004–2005
Boise Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Hunter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
Fresno Metropolitan Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
University of Michigan, Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime)
2014–2016
Indianapolis Museum of Art (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
None (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
Tacoma Art Museum (as Eloquent Objects Georgia O'Keeffe and Still Life in New Mexico)
2003–2004
1953
Dallas Museum of Art (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
Mayo Hill Galleries (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
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)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection Oct 06 2025
Source System ID
8731
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