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Sunflower, New Mexico, I

1935

Georgia O'Keeffe

(American, 1887–1986)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 53.3 x 43.2 x 3.8 cm (21 x 17 x 1 1/2 in.); Unframed: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe 1987.140
Copyright
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
On view at San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, Oct 4, 2025 - Oct 4, 2026
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The sunflower was a rare subject for O'Keeffe, who painted them on only three occasions.

Description

Unlike most of O’Keeffe’s close-up images of flowers, this example appears in a landscape environment, with bloom, stem, and leaves framed against the bright blue Southwestern sky.
A vertically oriented oil painting with strokes visible in subtle streaks depicts a sunflower against a bright, sky blue background. A green stalk rises from the center of the canvas, single leaves curving out on either side of the stalk. Gold-yellow petals sway around the central disc of the flower with a green center surrounded by a ring of yellow and orange specks of paint that radiate into smoother yellow-green strokes.

Sunflower, New Mexico, I

1935

Georgia O'Keeffe

(American, 1887–1986)
America

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