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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink and Blue Mountain, 1916
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink and Blue Mountain, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 8 13/16 x 11 15/16 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.15

Horizontal watercolor of a deep blue rounded hill shape, echoed in pink directly above. The blue covers most of the paper, bleeding down to lighter hues towards the bottom. The pink is only a strip of color along the top, with the background filled by a pale blue wash.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

106

Inscriptions

Verso: "B" (unidentified, graphite)
Verso of mat: "#17 Pink Blue Mountain" (EH, graphite)

Provenance

The Burnett Foundation (partial share) The Burnett Foundation (Fort Worth) 1996 Fort Worth/Texas, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation 1993 Abiquiu/New Mexico, Estate of the artist, 1986 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share) 1986

Exhibition History

1958 New York (Downtown--Watercolor), no. 17
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
2000 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Arthur Wesley Dow
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz: Gift of GOKF
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
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)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
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