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"tombstone": "Sunflower, New Mexico, I, 1935. Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887\u20131986). Oil on canvas; framed: 53.3 x 43.2 x 3.8 cm (21 x 17 x 1 1/2 in.); unframed: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.140. \u00a9 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift",
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"title": "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life",
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"title": "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern",
"description": "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 21, 2018-March 3, 2019).",
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"id": 522591,
"title": "Art Bridges Loan Partnership",
"description": "Art Bridges Loan Partnership. Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT (August 16, 2024-September 21, 2025); San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (October 4, 2025-October 4, 2026) https://www.samuseum.org/artwork/exhibition/canvas-to-clay-georgia-okeeffe-maria-martinez-to-mata-ortiz-and-tonala/.",
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"description": "New York, An American Place Georgia O'Keeffe: Exhibition of Recent Paintings, 1935 (1936), No. 11.",
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"description": "Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Georgia O'Keeffe Gift (4 September-15 November 1987)",
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"description": "International Arts (organizer). Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN (10/30/2014 - 2/15/2015): \"Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life:\"",
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"did_you_know": "The sunflower was a rare subject for O'Keeffe, who painted them on only three occasions.",
"description": "Unlike most of O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s close-up images of flowers, this example appears in a landscape environment, with bloom, stem, and leaves framed against the bright blue Southwestern sky.",
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"citation": "Georgia O'Keeffe. New York: Viking Press, 1976.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 71, no. 27",
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"updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:08:36.903000"
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