The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 26, 2023

Sunflower, New Mexico, I

1935

Georgia O'Keeffe

(American, 1887–1986)

America, 20th century

Oil on canvas

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.)

Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe 1987.140

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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.

Provenance
Estate of the artist, 1986
Exhibition history

New York, An American Place Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1935 (1936), No. 11.

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift (4 September-15 November 1987)

International Arts (organizer). Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN (10/30/2014 - 2/15/2015): "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life:"

The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 4-November 15, 1987).

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (October 30, 2014-February 15, 2015).

Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2018-March 3, 2019).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1987.140