About this artwork
In Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy, Georgia O’Keeffe painted the vividly colored leaves and white flower at a significantly magnified scale. She was inspired by the foliage she found on her walks in the summer around Lake George in upstate New York. Although she represented the leaves with carefully realistic handling, the close focus underscores their abstract qualities. She hoped that the strangely monumental subjects would inspire viewers to, as she said, “be surprised into taking time to look” at them in a new way.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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Title
- Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy
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Place
- United States (Object made in)
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Date
- 1928
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Inscriptions
- Signed and dated verso: G. O'Keeffe / 10-10-28
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Dimensions
- 76.5 × 101.6 cm (29 7/8 × 39 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
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Reference Number
- 1965.1180
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Copyright
- © The Art Institute of Chicago
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