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Georgia O'Keeffe
Jack-in-Pulpit No. I, 1930
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Jack-in-Pulpit No. I, 1930
Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches
CR No. 715
Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 715

A deep purple jack-in-the-pulpit with light green veins blooms in the middle of the canvas. Dark green leaves frame the jack-in-the-pulpit. Bits of plain white background are visible behind the plant.

CR No. 715

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Jack-in-Pulpit No. I

Source of title: backing inscription 1.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Jack-in-the-Pulpit, No. I

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

Jack in Pulpit No. 1

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Jack in the Pulpit

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit, No. I

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted in 1930. Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No sig. . . . No. 7 in 1931 exh." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Note: Belonged first to Gary Cooper." Series renumbered by O'Keeffe and Doris Bry in 1970. O'Keeffe wrote: "In the woods near two large spring houses, wild Jack–in–the–pulpits grew –– both the large dark ones and the small green ones. The year I painted them I had gone to the lake early in March. Remembering the art lessons of my high school days, I looked at the Jacks with great interest. I did a set of six paintings of them. The first painting was very realistic. The last one had only the Jack from the Flower" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 41). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Jack in Pulpit No. I – 30" (graphite) 2. "509 Madison Ave., – N.Y." (Art Institute of Chicago label, black ink) 3. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe" 4. Stamp: "Georgia O'Keeffe / An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York — N.Y." (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(An American Place, New York, NY); Gary Cooper, Santa Barbara, California, 1946; The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, 1947; Dr. Helen W. Boigon, New York, NY, 1955; The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, 1959; Private collection, New York, NY, 1959; Jack Lawrence, New York, NY, early 1980s; ACA Galleries, New York, NY, 1985; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1988; Beltexsan Galleries, Fort Worth, Texas, 1990; (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico); (Irene Drori, Inc., Fine Art, Los Angeles, California) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Source System ID

8759

Other IDs

715, Catalogue Raisonné