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Pastel on paper, 21 1/2 x 43 1/4 inches
CR No. 1117
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.8
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Large horizontal pastel with silhouette of mountains in blue along the bottom. Sky above is large reddish U shape with the negative space of a half oval filled with blue covering a large portion of the sky.
CR No. 1117
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pedernal
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1946 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946....No signature." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Pastel
Materials
Pastel on paper
1946
1962–1963
The Speed Art Museum
Quincy Art Center
Frye Art Museum
University of Oregon
Boise Art Museum
Allentown Art Museum
Gibbes Museum of Art
None
Public Library of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG)
Augustana College Art Museum
Orange County Museum of Art
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
1997–1998
1998–1999
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Dallas Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2004–2005
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Columbus Museum of Art
2008–2009
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
San Jose Museum of Art
2010–2013
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
National Cowgirl Museum of Hall of Fame
2010–2011
2014–2015
2016–2017
2019
2020–2021
Estate of the artist, 1986
Private collection, 1987
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1997
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Private Collection*
Version History
Core fields last updated 8/26/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
122
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Support: The support is a moderately thick, cream-colored, moderately textured paper.
Design Layers: The pastels are applied lightly, in single layers, generally in parallel, diagonal broad applications with minimal blending. The pastel has been applied with pressure to help ensure a strong, mechanical adhesion to the textured paper surface. Blues are stable ultramarine and relatively stable cobalt-Prussian blue. Whites are stable zinc oxide, and reds are stable lead minum. The pastels have moderate light sensitivity.
Surface Coating: The pastel is not fixed or coated.
Framing, Backing, and Hanging Hardware: The frame is a 2009 reproduction Georgia O'Keeffe/George Of-designed "clam shell" profile, metal leaf, micro-chamber, gasketed wood frame with reinforced secondary frame backing, pre-conditioned silica-gel polypropylene felt RH buffer, and activated charcoal-zeolite corrugated board VOC scavenger. The work is glazed with non-reflective, conductive Optium acrylic glazing.
The pastel is complete, and the media is generally secure when handled and traveled flat. Some transferred pastel media is scattered in aggregated areas. These tend to be large grains that are slightly embedded and relatively secure on the surface. The artist frequently applies the pastel media superficially across background regions, leaving low-relief areas of the support paper visible. These should not be confused with pinpoint losses. There are white chalk underdrawing and compositional sketch lines visible within the central blue background region. These were left intentionally by the artist in the finished work.
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