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Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 785
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Surrounded by white petals, the center of a jimsonweed flower glows bright yellow. Another partially opened flower stands above the central bloom. Smooth green leaves with deep veins fill the background.
CR No. 785
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Jimson Weed 3
Source of title: backing inscription 1.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Datura Stramonium
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
The White Flower
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Jimson Weed #3
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Jimson Weed No. III
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks notes backing inscriptions 1, 2. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Jimson Weed 3 – 31" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) 3. "Datura Stronmonium / 1932 / by 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
1941
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Contemporary Painting in the United States: A Special Exhibition)
Rockefeller Center (as Contemporary Painting in the United States: A Special Exhibition)
(Robert Miller Gallery, Inc., New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8797
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.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.
"Co-polymer Iso and N-Butyl Methacrylate 2155" (Fine Arts Conservation Laboratories typed label).
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