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Oil on canvas, 10 x 24 1/8 inches
CR No. 735
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Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1963
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Rolling tan and gray hills span the width of the composition. Dark mountains stand behind the hills. A blue sky stretches overhead.
CR No. 735
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Near Abiquiú, N.M. 2
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks. "N.M. 2" in title written in by O'Keeffe in black and blue ink in Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Near Abiquiú, New Mexico
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. (Title used by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Selected Exhibition Titles
Near Abiquiú, N.M. 2
O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, 2004, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Infor. from Miss Bry (An Amer. Place), July 1949.. . . Has not been photographed. On permanent loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Georgia O'Keeffe as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Coll. Note: I may not have examined this at the Place, or it may be "Another Place Near Abiquiú." (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Verso: "Georgia O'Keeffe — 1930" (white paint) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Signed and dated (verso): Georgia O'Keeffe—1930 (Source: The Met, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2004–2005
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Columbus Museum of Art
Lisa Mintz Messinger. "Georgia O'Keeffe." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), pp. 43–45, 60, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 65, 69–71, ill.
Michael Berry. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, p. 73, ill.
Doris Bry in Georgia O'Keeffe, in the West. Ed. Doris Bry and Nicholas Callaway. New York, 1989, pl. 11.
Elizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1993, p. 17, ill.
Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 1, p. 448, no. 735, ill.
Barbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman. O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. New York, 2001, p. 169 (app. 2).
Susan Wright. Georgia O'Keeffe: An Eternal Spirit. (1st ed., 1996). [New York], 2006, p. 115, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 14, 202, 280–81, no. 188, ill. (color).
Sarah Greenough, ed. My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Vol. 1, 1915–1933. New Haven, Conn., 2011, p. 677.
The artist (1930–63; on extended loan to MMA, 1949–63; her gift as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to MMA) (Source: The Met, 2025)
© Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Version History
Core fields last updated 11/6/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
552
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