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Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur

1929
Not on view
During her first stay in Taos, New Mexico from April to August 1929, O'Keeffe was the guest of socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan. She felt alive in her new surroundings and immediately set to painting the flowers that lined the path outside her guesthouse studio.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur
  • Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
  • Date: 1929
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 36 × 30 in. (91.4 × 76.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1934
  • Object Number: 34.51
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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