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Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Camellia, 1935
Image: okeeffe_CR865_red-camellia_714012.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Camellia, 1935
Oil on canvas board, 9 x 12 1/2 inches
CR No. 865
Oil on canvas board, 9 x 12 1/2 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 865

The soft petals of a red and pink camellia fill the right side of the image. A dark green leaf springs out from the flower, which appears to be resting on a piece of rippling white fabric.

CR No. 865

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Red Camellia

Source of title: Whitney Archive, 1937–38 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

General Remarks

Not recorded Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. Whitney Archive indicates, "See gallery photograph." Verso dates 1935. Whitney Archive dates 1937. Dated 1935 on basis of inclusion in 1937–38 exhibition and Stieglitz–O'Keeffe correspondence, pictured in Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 67. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe – / 1935 / " (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas board

Harold Diamond, New York, NY, purchase, 1977; (Doris Bry, New York, NY); Private collection, Florida, 1977; Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1977; Fritz Scholder, New York, NY, 1979; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 5255, lot no. 212, 6 December 1984, no sale; ACA Galleries, New York, NY, 1985; Francoise and Harvey Rambach, Locust, New Jersey, 1985; Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY, 1987; (Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

8849

Other IDs

865, Catalogue Raisonné