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Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 40 (76.5 x 101.6 cm) inches
CR No. 714
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Extended loan, private collection
L.1997.3.1
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Large magnified flowers on a horizontal canvas. The maroonish black petals of the hollyhock fill entire right side of the picture plain, with the smaller blue larkspur flowers covering the rest of the canvas on the left.
CR No. 714
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur
Source of title: backing inscription 1.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Black Holllyhock – Blue Larkspur
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Black Hollyhocks with Blue Larkspur
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
Black Hollyhocks and Blue Larkspur
Source of title: Whitney Archive.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Black Hollyhok with Blue Larkspur
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing:
- "Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur 29" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "509 Madison Ave., New York" (Art Institute of Chicago label, black ink)
- Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe"
- Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York"1
- "Black Hollyhock - Blue Larkspur / 1929 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), blank ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
2003–2004
2020–2021
2019–2022
2001
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist's First Exhibition in the South)
Muscarelle Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist's First Exhibition in the South)
2018–2019
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)
2008–2009
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
San Jose Museum of Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
1943
1944
2016
1997–1998
1998–1999
2019–2020
Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, Newport, R.I., by 1968
Estate of Anita O'Keeffe (Mrs. Robert R.) Young, 1985
Robert R. Young Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985
Sotheby's, New York, N.Y., sale no. 5658, lot no. 5, 3 December 1987
(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.)
Private collection
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Private Collection*
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/5/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
99
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