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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pedernal, 1945
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pedernal, 1945
Pastel on paper, 21 1/2 x 43 1/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.8

Large horizontal pastel with silhouette of mountains in blue along the bottom. Sky above is large reddish U shape with the negative space of a half oval filled with blue covering a large portion of the sky.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1117

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1986 Private collection, 1987 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1997

Exhibition History

1946 New York (An American Place), no. 13, as Pedernal
1952 New York (Downtown), no. 21
1960 New York (Downtown--Aqua)
1961 Wilmington
1962 New York (MOMA--Stieglitz)
1987 Washington, no. 105
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Poetry of Things)
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Edward Weston
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Moments in Time: Maria Chabot
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) A Sense of Place; all venues
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) A Celebration of New Work
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Rothenberg: Moving in Place)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Faraway
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Ghost Ranch Views
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