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Oil on canvas, 6 1/8 x 10 inches
CR No. 1020
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Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
2006.5.170
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This work is painted from the point of view of one who is actually on the road as it ascends a slight hill. Pedernal lies directly ahead in the center of the work.
CR No. 1020
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Road to Pedernal
Source of title: backing inscription.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
A Road and Mountain
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "Road to Pedernal" (black ink, on piece of wood attached to backing) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2010–2011
2010–2013
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image)
National Cowgirl Museum of Hall of Fame (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image)
2025–2026
2015–2016
2016
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.)
Private collection, Washington, D.C., 1958
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, N.Y., sale no. 3644, lot no. 84,23 May 1974
The artist, purchase, 1974
Estate of the artist, 1986
Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 1993
Gift to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2006
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
1017
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