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Georgia O'Keeffe
Purple Hills Ghost Ranch - 2 / Purple Hills No II, 1934
Georgia O'Keeffe
Purple Hills Ghost Ranch - 2 / Purple Hills No II, 1934
Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.20

Horizontal landscape of dark reddish crimson clay hills that flow down into softly rounded smaller hills below. The smaller hills are a lighter pink tinged with grey at the tops.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

837

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Backing:
1. "Purple Hills Ghost Ranch - 2 - 34" (graphite)
2. OK * (graphite)
3. "Georgia O'Keeffe / Purples Hills No II - 1934 / Ghost Ranch, New Mexico" (black ink)
4. "New Mexico 1934 / Georgia O'Keeffe/ An American Place / 509 Madison Ave / New York / City / net $3750 ['net $3750' in oval]" (As, black crayon)
5. "Purple Hills / No. 6 / Ghost Ranch 1934 / New Mexico / by. Georgia O'Keeffe" (WE, AAP6, black ink)

Provenance

(An American Place, New York, N.Y.) Mr. and Mrs. Frank Altschul, Stamford, Conn., 1939/40 Estate of Mrs. Frank Altschul, 1985 (James Graham & Sons, New York, N.Y.), 1986 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1987 Private collection, Philadelphia, Pa., 1988 (Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., ) The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996

Exhibition History

1935 New York (An American Place), nos. 27 or 28, as Red Hill form--Bad Lands, New Mexico
1936 New York (An American Place), no. 7, as Dark Hills, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
1938 Williamsburg ?
1988 Phoenix, no. 22
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK In Williamsburg
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2004 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) A Sense of Place; all venues
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) A Celebration of New Work
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2007 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Living Artists: Sherrie Levine
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK and Ansel Adams; all venues
2010 Fort Worth (Cowgirl) GOK and the Faraway
2011 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Robert Henri)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Faraway
2014 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Ghost Ranch Views
2015 New Mexico Museum of Art, Sept 11, 2015 - Jan. 17, 2016, Georgia O'Keeffe in Process
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79