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

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

Alice Walton purchased the 1932 painting for $44.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York in 2014. Walton is the founder of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which opened in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 2011 and focuses on American art from the colonial period to the present.

The purchase drew international attention because it set an auction record for a work by a female artist at the time. The painting’s oversized white flower and clean background exemplify O'Keeffe’s practice of turning a familiar natural object into a monumental modernist image.

The work is not held by the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, or the Art Institute of Chicago. Those institutions do own important works by major American artists, but Crystal Bridges is the museum associated with this particular O'Keeffe painting after Walton’s purchase.