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Oil on canvas, 30 3/16 x 36 3/16 inches
CR No. 786
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase
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White leaves and pale blue vertical lines that resemble grass frame a supple, white, rose-like flower with a white center.
CR No. 786
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
White Calico Flower
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title
The White Calico Flower
Source of title: Whitney Museum of American Art.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Note: Miss O'Keeffe says this should be called, "White Calico Flower." Date 1931."Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Purchased May 2, 1932, with the "Mountains, New Mexico" for $4,700 for both. See gallery photograph." Pictured in 1931-32 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 51. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Adhesive tape on stretcher bar upper center in marker: TOP
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS/ From Whitney Museum [handwritten in ink]/ Box21- [handwritten in graphite] Box No. 33 [handwritten in ink]/ For Wo2 [handwritten in graphite]
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: DENVER ART MUSEUM- Denver, Colo./ EXHIBITION: AM. PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE/ FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM/ DATES: May 22, - July 15, 1973/ ARTIST: O'Keeffe, Georgia/ TITLE: The White Flower, 1931 -(oil)/ DIMENSIONS: h. 30" X 36"/ DAM/Lot # 043- 100 [handwritten in ink]
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: PIONEERS/ OF AMERICAN/ ABSTRACTION/ Bluemner Davis Demuth/ Dove Marin O'Keeffe/ Sheeler Stella Weber/ ARTIST GEORGIA O'Keeffe/ TITLE The White Flower. 1931./ COLLECTION Whitney Museum of Art/ ANDREW CRISPO GALLERY/ 41 EAST 57 STREET NEW YORK CITY 758-9190 2nd floor
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: PIONEERS/ OF AMERICAN/ ABSTRACTION/ Bluemner Davis Demuth/ Dove Marin O'Keeffe/ Sheeler Stella Weber/ ARTIST GEORGIA O'Keeffe/ TITLE The White Flower. 1931./ COLLECTION Whitney Museum of Art/ ANDREW CRISPO GALLERY/ 41 EAST 57 STREET NEW YORK CITY 758-9190 2nd floor
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/ 945 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10021/ Artist G. O'Keefe/ Title THE WHITE CALICO FLOWER/ Date 1931 Catalogue No. WC.78.84.37/ Lender WMAA/ Exhibition William Carlos Williams/ 12/12/78-2/4/79
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/ 11 WEST 53RD STREET NEW YORK/ THE INFLATED IMAGE C/E 68-5/ ARTIST O'KEEFFE GEORGIA/ TITLE The White Flower. 1931/ oil on canvas/ LENDER'S NAME The Whitney Museum of / American Art, New York/ MUSEUM NO. L8.1654 [handwritten in ink] BOX NO. 5 [handwritten in ink]
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART/ 945 MADISON AVENUE/ NEW YORK, NY 10021/ THE AMERICAN CENTURY:/ ART AND CULTURE 1900-2000/ April 23 - August 22, 1999/ 4th Floor/ Georgia O'Keefe/ The White Calico Flower, 1931/ Oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches/ Purchase, 32.26
Label removed from backing board [housed in object file]: artist: Georgia O'Keeffe/ title: WHITE FLOWER/ no: 20. medium oil/ exhibition no. and title: 60-27 MAJOR PAINTINGS/ FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM/ lender:/ circulation dates: Nov 60-Nov 61/ THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS/ 1083 Fifth Avenue New York 28, N.Y.
abel removed from backing board [housed in object file]: THE ART GALLERY/ 9.9 [handwritten in ink]/ of HAMILTON/ 50th Anniversary [handwritten in ink]/ BOX NO./ P2
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2024–2025
San Diego Museum of Art (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Albuquerque Museum (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Musee Des Beaux-Arts Montreal (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA Boston) (as O'Keeffe and Moore)
2016
Norton Museum of Art (as O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York)
Portland Museum of Art (Maine) (as O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York)
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
North Carolina Museum of Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
New Britain Museum of American Art (as The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art)
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
1931‑1932 collection of the artist; 1932 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (sold through an American Place, New York, New York)
(Source: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 03 2025
Source System ID
8798
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