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Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur, 1930
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR714_black-hollyhock-blue-larkspur_786518.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur, 1930
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 40 (76.5 x 101.6 cm) inches
CR No. 714
Extended loan, private collection
L.1997.3.1
Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 40 (76.5 x 101.6 cm) inches
Extended loan, private collection
L.1997.3.1
CR No. 714

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:

  1. "Black Hollyhock Blue Larkspur 29" (graphite)
  2. OK {5star} (graphite)
  3. "509 Madison Ave., New York" (Art Institute of Chicago label, black ink)
  4. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe"
  5. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York"1
  6. "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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Private Collection*

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/5/2026

Source System ID

99

Other IDs

714, Catalogue Raisonné