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Georgia O'Keeffe
Untitled (Road), 1959
Image: okeeffe_CR1368_untitled-road_824746.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Untitled (Road), 1959
Oil on canvas, 19 1/4 x 23 1/4
CR No. 1368
Oil on canvas, 19 1/4 x 23 1/4
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 1368

A thin band of pale pink twists diagonally across the canvas. Flanking the form on either side is a softly shaded background in tones of pink and green.

CR No. 1368

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Untitled (Road)

Source of title: image.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks. O'Keeffe wrote: "I live on a hilltop in a village.... From my eastern window the road out into the world seems to wind away far up and down. Nearby it seems to swoop under the house—then curves to the left instead and goes past me. The road winds along the foot of the hills at the edge of the mountains. A long dark mesa to the east—a ragged pink one to the west — a valley into the mountains to the south, then hills and a mountain to the north.... One day, playing with a camera, I tried to photograph the road and to get it all in I had to turn the camera at a very odd angle. My drawing—or painting—call it what you will—comes from that photograph" (Some Memories of Drawings [1988], unpaginated). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "7/13/59" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

10302

Other IDs

1368, Catalogue Raisonné