
Aaron Anderson
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Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Rabin & Krueger, Inc., Newark, New Jersey.
Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York.
Grete Meilman Fine Art, Ltd., New York.
Thomas Brown Wilbur.
Doris Bry.
The Doris Bry Trust.
Sale, Christie's, New York, November 19, 2015, lot 86, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph Stella, April 22-October 9, 1994, pp. 185, 274, no. 211, illustrated.
Literature
I.B. Jaffe, Joseph Stella, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970, p. 212, no. 393 (as Tropical Flowering Cactus).
The present work was once in the collection of Doris Bry (1920-2014), a leading authority on the works of Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and author of monographs on both artists.