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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pedernal, 1941-1942
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pedernal, 1941-1942
Oil on canvas, 20 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.12

Colorful painting of the Pedernal mountain in blue, centered in the upper middle of the canvas. The brown land of the foreground is covered with bushes and trees of green, yellow and red, painted with a sense of space and depth receding towards the mountain in the distance.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

1029

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible
Verso: inaccessible

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

1943 New York (An American Place), no. 8, as The Pedernal
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) A Celebration of New Work
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffiana
2013 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Katsina; all venues
2015 New Mexico Museum of Art, Sept 11, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, Georgia O'Keeffe in Process
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's New Mexico
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