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Oil on canvas, 19 x 16 inches
CR No. 969
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Gift of Cary Ross, BMA 1940.122
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A flower with rippling white petals and a green center dominates the canvas. Prominent green stamens rise from its center. Dark green petals and pale orange, flower-like abstract forms frame the blossom. A bright blue background appears behind the flora.
CR No. 969
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Cup of Silver Ginger
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Cup of Silver (Hawaii)
Cup of Silver
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Sold to Baltimore Museum." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Gift of Cary Ross to Baltimore Museum." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: "#4" (unidentified hand, graphite). Backing: 1. "21 New Paintings – / (Hawaii) / No. 7 Catalogue of / Exhibition Feb 3 – April 17 – 1940 / 'Cup of Silver' (Hawaii) / 1939 / Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink) 2. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York" (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1966
1967
2014
Honolulu Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawaii Pictures)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: The Hawaii Pictures)
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation)
2003–2004
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)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1940; Cary Ross, New York, by purchase, 1939; from An American Place, New York (Source: BMA, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection 2025
Source System ID
8922
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by Baltimore Museum of Art in 2025.
The painting is executed on a medium-weight, twill weave canvas. The canvas is tensioned onto a commercial, four-member stretcher which is stamped in red: “ANCO Inc. / GLENDALE L.I” on the lower and proper left stretcher bars. The lower stretcher bar also bears a red stamped “16” with the ANCO stamp. “#4” is written in graphite on the upper and lower stretcher bars. An even, white priming layer continues to the trimmed edges of the canvas. Graphite is pulled into the paint at the perimeters of some forms, providing evidence of underdrawing. Paint is generally medium-bodied and applied wet-into-wet. This approach allows the paint to catch on the tops of the canvas weave, leading to small voids in which the white ground layer is visible. In other areas, the ground has been left visible as part of the composition. An overall varnish is not apparent; the surface is evenly matte. The painting is framed in its original silver gilt clamshell frame designed by George Of. The frame is heavily tarnished.
The painting is in excellent condition. It has an age-appropriate network of fine cracking with a history of local consolidation prior to loans. Minor inpainting was undertaken to areas of abrasion and pinpoint loss.
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