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Georgia O'Keeffe, Pedernal with Red Hills (Red Hills with the Pedernal), 1936, oil on linen, 19…
Pedernal with Red Hills
Georgia O'Keeffe, Pedernal with Red Hills (Red Hills with the Pedernal), 1936, oil on linen, 19…
Georgia O'Keeffe, Pedernal with Red Hills (Red Hills with the Pedernal), 1936, oil on linen, 19 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Bequest of Helen Miller Jones, 1986 (1986.137.18). © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Photo by Blair Clark.

Pedernal with Red Hills

Artist (American, 1887 - 1986)
Date1936
Mediumoil on linen
DimensionsImage: 19 3/4 × 29 3/4 in. (50.2 × 75.6 cm)
Frame: 21 5/16 × 31 3/8 × 2 1/8 in. (54.1 × 79.7 × 5.4 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequest of Helen Miller Jones, 1986
Object number1986.137.18
DescriptionLandscape with red hills in foreground and Cerro Pedernal in shades of blue in background.
eMuseum Notes
Following an inspiring visit to Taos in 1929, Georgia O’Keeffe returned to New Mexico repeatedly and made her first visit to Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico, in 1934. She was captivated most of all by Cerro Pedernalis, a flat-topped butte in the northern Jemez Mountains. O’Keeffe was so taken by this mountain, she wryly claimed, “It’s my private mountain ... It belongs to me ... God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.” The Pedernal became a reoccurring subject in O’Keeffe’s paintings and her ashes were spread at the top of the mountain upon her death. O’Keeffe’s desert landscapes including her Pedernal paintings are characterized by organic shapes reduced down to their most essential forms and colors.
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  • landscapes (representations)
  • mesas

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