Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawaii Works at New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx is hosting a retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), focusing on her 1939 nine-week trip to Hawaii commissioned by the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. Seventeen works, most unseen since 1940, are displayed among the garden's flora that inspired her iconic flower paintings. The exhibition includes a mystery: the painting 'Hibiscus' was missing until it sold at Christie's New York for $4.8 million to an anonymous collector. Curators hope to borrow it for the show or for its second venue, the Brooks Museum in Memphis in 2019. The show runs until October 28, 2018.
Key facts
- Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective at New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.
- Focuses on her 1939 nine-week trip to Hawaii for Hawaiian Pineapple Company.
- Seventeen works on view, most not publicly exhibited since 1940.
- Painting 'Hibiscus' was missing until sold at Christie's for $4.8 million.
- Anonymous collector bought 'Hibiscus'.
- Show runs until October 28, 2018.
- Second venue planned at Brooks Museum in Memphis in 2019.
- New York Botanical Garden is the oldest botanical garden in the US.
Entities
Artists
- Georgia O'Keeffe
Institutions
- New York Botanical Garden
- Hawaiian Pineapple Company
- Christie's
- Brooks Museum
Locations
- Sun Prairie
- Santa Fe
- New York
- Bronx
- Hawaii
- Memphis
- United States