Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
70 x 83-1/2 in. 73-1/16 x 85-1/8 x 1-5/8 in. (framed)
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Eli Lilly and Company
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Elizabeth Arden commissioned the piece from the artist; Elizabeth Arden salon was purchased by Eli Lilly and Co, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1971; Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1997.
Gallery Labels
- In her most ambitious floral still life, O’Keeffe magnified the white trumpet blossoms of the jimson weed, arranging them in an exuberant composition charged with energy and movement. The radical manipulation of scale was one of the innovations of the modernist movement.
- Jimson weed, a desert plant that bloomed in the cool evening hours, thrived in the territory near O’Keeffe’s house in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
- Cosmetic entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden commissioned O’Keeffe to paint Jimson Weed for the exercise room of her Fifth Avenue Salon in New York. Imitating O’Keeffe’s four monumental blossoms, the fitness routine of the gym’s patrons included stretching and unfurling.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still-Life
Tacoma Art Museum
March 1, 2015 - June 7, 2015
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still-Life
Tacoma Art Museum
March 1, 2015 - June 7, 2015
Indianapolis Museum of Art
November 2, 2014 - February 15, 2015
Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern
Yokohama Museum of Art
1994 - 1994
Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern
Palacio de Bellas Artes
1993 - 1993
Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern
1993 - 1993
Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition
1971 - 1971
Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art
1970 - 1970
Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago
1970 - 1970
Georgia O'Keeffe
The Museum of Modern Art
May 14, 1946 - August 25, 1946
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings - New and Some Old
An American Place
Dates Unknown
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