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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pelvis With Shadows and the Moon, 1943
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pelvis With Shadows and the Moon, 1943
Oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches
CR No. 1052
Oil on canvas, 40 x 48 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 1052

The complex, rippling forms of an animal's pelvis bones cast bright blue shadows over a semiabstract landscape. A black mesa runs along the bottom of the work below stripes of yellow, pink, and white. Blue sky fills the upper half of the composition's background. In the top right corner, a white moon glows over a blue silhouette of Pedernal.

CR No. 1052

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Pelvis With Shadows and the Moon

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1944 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Pelvis With Shadows and Moon

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

O'Keeffe wrote: "...this belonged to Frank Lloyd Wright.! tried to buy it back when he died and they would not sell" (from the notebook O'Keeffe kept of the 1970 Whitney exhibition; owned by Georgia O'Keeffe Papers, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation (Now housed at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

10205

Other IDs

1052, Catalogue Raisonné