Georgia O'Keeffe

Pink Tulip

1925-1929

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Pink Tulip

Georgia O'Keeffe

Pink Tulip

1925-1929

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, Framed: 37 1/4 x 31 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (94.6 x 79.4 x 3.5 cm) Sight: 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 in. (29.8 x 39.7 cm)

Credit Line Bequest of Mabel Garrison Siemonn, in Memory of her Husband, George Siemonn

Object Number 1964.11.13

With a close-cropped focus on her subject and glowing color, Georgia O’Keeffe used smoothly blended brushwork to present the tulip as a living, changing blossom. Critics often wrote that her flower paintings evoked the human body. Here, O’Keeffe captured the way tulips open and close in response to heat or cold and light or darkness, as well as the brevity of their sculptural beauty as they bloom and fade—a powerful metaphor for personal growth and change. The artist completed more than 200 paintings of flowers during her lifetime.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1964; Mabel Garrison Siemonn, New York, by purchase, 1960; from The Downtown Gallery, New York

New York (MOMA - Art in Embassies) Jun 1968--Jul 1970.

BMA, "Women Artists," 18 Apr--18 Jun 1972.

BMA, "American Painting 1900-1930," 2 Sep--29 Oct 1978.

The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 24 Apr--25 Jul 1999; Georgia O'Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, 14 Aug--10 Oct 1999; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, 30 Oct 1999--30 Jan 2000; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 19 Feb--14 May 2000. "Georgia O'Keefe: The Real Meaning of Things"

The Whitney Museum of Art, "Georgia O'Keefe: Abstraction" September 17, 2009 - January 17, 2010; circulated to The Phillips Collection February 12 2010 to May 15 2010.

Virginia Anderson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists," October 6, 2019 — July 5, 2020

Haskell, Barbara ed. "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction." New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. ill. fig. 22. p. 69.

Lynes, Barbara Buhler. "O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, 1916-1929." Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press an imprint of University Microfilms, Inc. 1989, ill. fig. 14.

Turner, Elizabeth Hutton and Marjorie P. Balge-Crozier, "Georgia O'Keeffe: the Poetry of Things." New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. repro. p. 72, pl.22.

Kuh, Katharine, "The Artist's Voice: Talks with seventeen Modern Artists." Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Press, 2000. p. xix, repro. p. 192-fig. 85.

BMA Today: May/June 2003, p. 9, ill.

"60 Objects Countless Stories," BMA Today, Winter 2008-2009, pp. 6-7, ill. p. 6.

van Dongen, Ron. The Tulip Anthology. Hachette Austrailia in association with PQ Blackwell, 2010. p. 185.

Baltimore Museum of Art. "The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

Inscribed: Stretcher: "Stieglitz #J/#8 O'Keefe/G38 gl 58" (GO, graphite) Backing: 1. "Pink Tulip - 1926/O'Keeffe" (AS, black crayon) 2. AAP11 [twice] 3. "Tulip 1926/Georgia O'Keeffee" (WE, AAP6, black ink)