Apple Blossoms
Framed: 37 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches (94.62 x 64.14 x 4.45 cm)
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Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe, An American Place, New York, January 18-February 27, 1931, no cat.
Flower Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., January 31-February 28, 1937, no cat.
Kansas City Collects, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., January 22-February 28, 1965, no. 44.
The 12th Annual Festival of the Arts: Georgia O'Keeffe, Kohler Gallery, Daland Fine Arts Center, Milton College, Wisc., April 20-May 10, 1965, unnumbered.
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist in Focus, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla., November 15, 1998-January 10, 1999, no. 6.
Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George, Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY, June 15-September 15, 2013; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, October 4, 2013-January 26, 2014; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, February 8-May 11, 2014, unnumbered.
American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri; July 9 2022-January 8 2023, no cat.
While O'Keeffe resented autobiographical interpretations of her art, she identified personally with apples. Her husband, photographer and gallery owner, Alfred Stieglitz, photographed her with apple trees at their summer home at Lake George, New York, where she likely painted Apple Blossoms. Furthermore, Stieglitz thought of himself as a gardener cultivating his talented wife to produce the "fruit" of great American art.
To (An AmericaPlace, New York, by 1931);
To Rheta A. (Mrs. Edgar L.) Berkley, later Mrs. Louis Sosland, Kansas City, MO, October 1933;
Her gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
“Exhibitions in New York: Georgia O’Keeffe, An American Place,” Art News 29 (January 24, 1931), 9.
M. K. P., “In Gallery and Studio,” Kansas City Star, January 29, 1937, 20 (as Cherry Blossoms by Georgia O’Keefe).
“Exhibition of Flower Paintings,” News Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary
Atkins Museum
of Fine Arts) 3 (February 1, 1937), 1 (as Cherry Blossoms by Georgia O’Keefe).
M. K. P., “Exhibition of Flower Paintings in Nelson-Atkins
Gallery Loan Rooms Includes Pictures by Distinguished
American Artists—Georgia O’Keefe Paints Apple Blossoms Enormously Enlarged,” Kansas City Times, February 1, 1937, 9.
Musical Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts), March 1937 (as Cherry Blossoms by Georgia O’Keefe), clipping, Scrapbook, NAMA Archives.
Kansas City Collects, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1965), unpaginated.
The 12th Annual Festival of the Arts: Georgia O’Keeffe, exh. cat. (Milton, Wisc.: Kohler Gallery, Daland Fine Arts Center, Milton College, 1965), unpaginated.
Georgia O’Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers, Nicholas Callaway, ed., (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, in association with Callaway Editions, 1987), pl. 83 (reproduced upside down).
The Society of Fellows
Silver Anniversary
(Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1990), unpaginated.
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
1991), 6, 172.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 247.
Journal of the American Medical Association 271 (April 13, 1994), cover.
Loretta S. Loftus, “The Cover,” Journal of the American Medical Association 271 (April 13, 1994), 1060.
Cara Montgomery Stephenson, Looking at Flowers (West Palm Beach, Fla.: K. P. International,
1994), 60, 96.
“Museum of Fine Arts Offers Unique Perspectives on the Works
of Georgia O’Keeffe,” Pinellas News
(St. Petersburg, Fla.), October 23, 1998, 1.
“Georgia O’Keeffe: The Artist in Focus,” Mosaic: News from the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, October–December 1998, 9.
Jennifer Hardin, Georgia O’Keeffe: The Artist in Focus, exh. cat. (St. Petersburg, Fla.: Museum of Fine Arts, 1998), 14–15, 32.
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with National Gallery of Art and Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 1999), 1:428 (reproduced upside down).
“Being Georgia O’Keeffe: The Artists’ View,” Calendar (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), November 2001, 4.
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 21, 416-19 (repro.), 2: 179-80 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 179 (repro.).
Erin B. Coe, Gwendolyn Owens, and Bruce Robertson, Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2013), 66, 175 (repro.).
