Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Tulip
1925-1929
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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
The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935
Five Centuries of Flowers in Art
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle
Earth and Sky: Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction
O'Keeffe and Abstraction
Georgia O'Keeffe
Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris
AMW Reinstallation 2014
Working title: Georgia O'Keeffe
Creators! Freeing Herself by Art
By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists
American Wing Rotations 2020
American Wing Rotations 2021
Georgia O'Keeffe: "Things I Had No Words For"
American Modernism Reinstallation
American Wing Rotations 2023
American Wing Rotations 2024
American Wing Rotations 2025
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.
Barbara Buhler Lynes, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné," New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999, no. 564.
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)
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