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Oil on canvas, 20 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches
CR No. 1029
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.5.12
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Colorful painting of the Pedernal mountain in blue, centered in the upper middle of the canvas. The brown land of the foreground is covered with bushes and trees of green, yellow and red, painted with a sense of space and depth receding towards the mountain in the distance.
CR No. 1029
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pedernal
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks, Downtown Gallery Archive.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
The Pedernal
Source of title: label printed by O'Keeffe (white).
Pedernal, Blue and Yellow
Source of title: label printed by O'Keeffe (white).
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive. Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1941. Abiquiú Notebooks dates 1941. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2003–2004
2012–2014
Montclair Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
Denver Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
Heard Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land)
2010–2011
2017–2020
Brooklyn Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Reynolda House Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Peabody Essex Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
The Cleveland Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Wichita Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Nevada Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Estate of the artist, 1986; The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993; The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share) (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
42
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