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O'Keeffe is best known for close-up flower subjects whose magnified forms fill the entire space of each canvas. Likely inspired by similar compositions in modern photography, these images are not only celebrations of nature, but also striking essays in abstract design. Although many critics interpreted O'Keeffe's flower paintings as reflections of femininity in general and female sexuality in particular, the artist strongly opposed such readings. Throughout most of her career, she frequently attempted to persuade others to discuss her work without referring to her gender, writing on one occasion, "I have always been very annoyed at being referred to as a 'woman artist' rather than an 'artist.'"
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Document identity
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135420
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Morning Glory with Black
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painting
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135420
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painting
title
Morning Glory with Black
description
O'Keeffe is best known for close-up flower subjects whose magnified forms fill the entire space of each canvas. Likely inspired by similar compositions in modern photography, these images are not only celebrations of nature, but also striking essays in abstract design. Although many critics interpreted O'Keeffe's flower paintings as reflections of femininity in general and female sexuality in particular, the artist strongly opposed such readings. Throughout most of her career, she frequently attempted to persuade others to discuss her work without referring to her gender, writing on one occasion, "I have always been very annoyed at being referred to as a 'woman artist' rather than an 'artist.'"
date
1926
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60465130
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3228
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Painting
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Framed: 96.5 x 81.3 x 5.4 cm (38 x 32 x 2 1/8 in.); Unframed: 91 x 75.5 cm (35 13/16 x 29 3/4 in.)
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America
accession
1958.42
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oil on canvas
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Morning Glory with Black, 1926. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986). Oil on canvas; framed: 96.5 x 81.3 x 5.4 cm (38 x 32 x 2 1/8 in.); unframed: 91 x 75.5 cm (35 13/16 x 29 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.42
collection
American - Painting
inscriptions
inscription
Verso: "G OKeeffe -- 1926" (white paint)
didYouKnow
The morning glory rests against a black petunia, seen partially at lower right.
citations
citation
Messinger, Lisa Mintz. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 74; Reproduced: p. 73
citation
O'Keeffe, Georgia, Alfred Stieglitz, and Sarah Greenough. <em>My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.</em> New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2011.
page_number
Mentioned p. 539, n. 219.
citation
Cole, Mark, "Exhibition: Georgia O'Keeffe," <em>Cleveland Art</em> 58, no. 6 (November/December 2018).
page_number
Reproduced cover (detail).
citation
Metropolitan Museum of Art. <em>Contemporary Painting in the United States: A Special Exhibition April 19 Through April 27</em>. New York: The Museum Press, 1941.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 16
citation
Milliken, William Mathewson. <em>In Memoriam Leonard C. Hanna, Jr</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page_number
Mentioned, unpaginated [p.2]; reproduced, fig. 26
citation
Friedman, Martin. <em>The Precisionist View in American Art: November 13 Through December 25, 1960: An Exhibition</em>. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1960.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 57
citation
Wilder, Mitchell. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966</em>. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,1966.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 28
citation
Goodrich, Lloyd, and Doris Bry. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>. New York, NY: Published for the Whitney Museum of American Art by Praeger, 1970.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 18-19
citation
Hoffman, Katherine. <em>An Enduring Spirit: The Art of Georgia O'Keeffe</em>. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1984.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 103; Reproduced: fig. Q
citation
Castro, Jan Garden. <em>The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe</em>. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1985.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 28
citation
"Art Museum Gets O'Keeffe Paintings." <em>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</em>, April 22, 1986.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 5C
citation
Callaway, Nicholas. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers</em>. New York: Knopf in association with Callaway Editions, 1987.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 40, 110
citation
Culllinan, Helen. "Georgia On Our Minds; O'Keeffe Legacy: 5 Glowing New Oils at Museum." <em>The Cleveland Plain Dealer, </em>September 5, 1987.
page_number
Mentioned
citation
Callaway, Nicholas. "Ostentatious Perfectionism." Interview by Ingrid Sischy. <em>Artforum International </em>26, no. 5 (January 1988).
page_number
Reproduced: p. 100
citation
Bry, Doris, Nicholas Callaway, and Bram Dijkstra. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: The New York Years</em>. New York: A.A. Knopf in association with Callaway, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 54
citation
Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 42
citation
Chong, Alan. <em>European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 170
citation
Welton, Jude. <em>Looking at Paintings</em>. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 9; Reproduced: p. 9
citation
Pelfrey, Robert H. <em>Art and Mass Media</em>. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1996.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 311; Reproduced: p. 312
citation
Tsutsumi, Tomoko, and Yōko Yano. <em>Seiyō kaiga no naka no hana</em>. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1997.
page_number
Reproduced: fig. 73
citation
Hutton Turner, Elizabeth, and Marjorie P. Balge-Crozier. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things</em>. Washington, DC: Phillips Collection, 1999.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 150; Reproduced: p. 85, pl. 31
citation
Lynes, Barbara Buhler. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné</em>, 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
page_number
Mentioned; Reproduced: p. 320
citation
Greenough, Sarah. <em>Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries</em>. Washington, D.C.; Boston, MA: National Gallery of Art; Bulfinch Press, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 535; Reproduced: p. 311, pl. 106
citation
de Chassey, Eric. <em>Made in USA: l'art américain, 1908-1947. </em>Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 133
citation
"L’art Américain débarqu." <em>Le Magazine: Arts & Spectacles, </em>no. 328 (January 2002).
page_number
Reproduced
citation
Souter, Janet. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe</em>. New York: Parkstone Press, 2005.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 95
citation
Sims, Lowery Stokes. <em>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 119, no. 68; p. 70
citation
Haskell, Barbara and Sasha Nicholas. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 111
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 57
citation
Bernard, Sophie. <em>Georgia O'Keeffe et ses amis photographes.</em> Paris: Somogy; Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble, 2015.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 52; Reproduced: p. 53, fig. 34
citation
Corn, Wanda M., <em>Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern</em>. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2017.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 75, Reproduced: fig. 64, p. 76
citation
"New in the Galleries.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 5 (September/October 2017): Back cover.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover
creditline
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
galleryDonorText
Dr. Robert B. Benyo Trust Gallery
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2026-05-29 06:55:08.363000
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135420
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American Painting and Sculpture
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American - Painting
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oil on canvas
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female
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