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Sunflower, New Mexico, I
1935
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
American Painting and Sculpture
Sunflower, New Mexico, I, 1935. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe 1987.140 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 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. The sunflower was a rare subject for O'Keeffe, who painted them on only three occasions.
- Maker/Artist
- O'Keeffe, Georgia
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1987.140
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
- Exhibitions
- The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift, Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life, Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern, New York, An American Place Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1935 (1936), No. 11.<br>Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift (4 September-15 November 1987)<br>International Arts (organizer). Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN (10/30/2014 - 2/15/2015): "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life:"
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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