Georgia O'KeeffeAmerican, 1887–1986Sunflower, New Mexico, I
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Sunflower, New Mexico, I” now? Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Cleveland, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Unlike most of O’Keeffe’s close-up images of flowers, this example appears in a landscape environment, with bloom, stem, and leaves framed against the bright blue Southwestern sky.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Details
- Accession number
- 1987.140
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
In the life of Georgia O'Keeffe
The whole life1929–1983 · Workplace
New Mexico
1932–1934
Nervous breakdown and two months in hospital
A nervous breakdown, largely brought on by Stieglitz’s affair with Dorothy Norman, kept O’Keeffe from working from late 1932, and in 1933 she spent two months in hospital; in 1933 and 1934 she recuperated in Bermuda. She began painting again in January 1934.
August 1934
Moves to Ghost Ranch
From August 1934 she lived at Ghost Ranch, north of Abiquiú; the varicoloured cliffs around the ranch inspired some of her most famous landscapes. In 1940 she moved into a house on the ranch property.
1937
Stieglitz gives up photography
When Stieglitz retired from photography in 1937 he had made more than 350 portraits of O’Keeffe and more than 200 nude photographs of her.
