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Georgia O'Keeffe
Road to Pedernal, 1941
Georgia O'Keeffe
Road to Pedernal, 1941
Oil on canvas, 6 1/8 x 10 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.170

This work is painted from the point of view of one who is actually on the road as it ascends a slight hill. Pedernal lies directly ahead in the center of the work.
DETAILS

Catalogue Raisonné Number

1020

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible
Backing: "Road to Pedernal" (black ink, on piece of wood attached to backing)

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) Private collection, Washington, D.C., 1958 Sotheby Parke Bernet inc., New York., sale no. 3644, lot no. 84, 23 May 1974 The Artist, purchase, 1974 Estate of the artist, 1986

Exhibition History

1942 New York (An American Place), no. 1, as A Road and Mountain
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Faraway
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's New Mexico
CREDITS & RIGHTS

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Source System ID

1017