This image shows a painting which is framed in a pigmented pastel green panel that includes fragments of earth and rocks from the sites where the paintings were made. The subject of the painting is a cluster of rounded fan-shaped green and yellow and blue hollyhock leaves growing between the intersection of the adobe wall and the ground. The wall and the soil come together as two flat planes separated by the short textural staccato and curved Monet-like brushstrokes in mauve, beige, red, brown and purple to define the wall. The parched soil is composed of energetic circular strokes of brown, gray and mauve with scattered jewel-colored little stones of pink, purple, yellow ochre with a few green sprouts popping through - which somehow gives the illusion of peering at pebbles through water.
This is an image that shows the side view of O'Keeffe's Hollyhock showing a screen printed ruler painted along the edge of the painting with a pink background and black numbers.

O’Keeffe’s Hollyhock

ArtistJosephine Halvorson
Year2019-20
Dimensions42 x 32 inches (106.7 x 81.3 cm)
MediumGouache, site material, and screen print on panels
CreditCourtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Hollyhocks of various colors grow annually along the garden path behind O’Keeffe’s home in Abiquiú. Halvorson made this painting in the garden during the early summer, when the plant was shaded in the morning by the adobe house.

As O’Keeffe remarked: she had planted “all the flowers she painted” when she first moved to the house in 1949, “but many of them did not grow in Abiquiú,” so after a while she stopped trying.

Halvorson recalls wondering if this plant might indeed have been descended from one of O’Keeffe’s?