Which museum bought Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 after its record 2014 sale?

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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 after its record 2014 sale.

O'Keeffe painted Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 in 1932. The large white flower against a pale background exemplifies her practice of magnifying natural forms so that viewers confront their structure and scale.

At a Sotheby's auction in New York in November 2014, the painting sold for about $44.4 million. That price set a record for the highest amount paid at auction for a work by a female artist at the time. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, acquired the painting.

The work is often confused with O'Keeffe's broader group of flower paintings, but its full title identifies one particular canvas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton, is known for collecting and displaying American art.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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