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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986)
White Rose with Larkspur No. I
signed with initials ‘OK’ in the artist’s star device (on a piece of the original backing)
oil on canvas
36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.)
Painted in 1927
Provenance
Dr. Constance Friess, New York (gift from the artist, 1946).
Private collection (by descent from the above, 1975).
Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC, New York (acquired from the above, 2006).
Private collection, Las Vegas (2006).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2013.
Literature
Arts Magazine, 1957, vol. 32, p. 56 (titled White Rose with Larkspur).
N. Callaway, ed., Georgia O’Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers, New York, 1987, no. 42 (illustrated in color).
B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, 1999, vol. 1, p. 345, no. 596 (illustrated in color).
M. McQuade, Stealing Glimpses: Of Poetry, Poets, and Things in Between, Louisville, 1999, p. 169.
H. Drohojowska-Philp, Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O’Keeffe, New York, 2004, p. 277.
J. Stuhlman and B.B. Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction, West Palm Beach, 2007, p. 31.
J.A. Barter, et al., American Modernism at The Art Institute of Chicago: From World War I to 1955, Chicago, 2009, p. 130 (illustrated, fig. 52).
Exhibited
New York, The Intimate Gallery, O’Keeffe Exhibition, January-February 1928, no. 16.
New York, The American Women’s Association Clubhouse, Exhibition of Paintings (1924-1937) by Georgia O’Keeffe, March-April 1937, no. 9.
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Art Our Children Live With: A Loan Exhibition of American Art, December 1957, no. 28.
Amherst, Mead Art Museum, circa 1996-2006 (on extended loan).
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