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Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
CR No. 740
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At the center of the composition stand layers of hills in various rich colors, from deep blue to burgundy. Small crags that resemble wrinkles interrupt the smoothness of the hills. A pale pink and yellow sky with tiny white clouds glows above the land.
CR No. 740
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Rust Red Hills
Source of title: backing inscription, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Hills – Back Of Mabel's, Taos
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive.
Toward Abiquiú, New Mexico
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive.
General Remarks
Double entries Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted 1930. Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946 ... No signature [notes inscriptions 1, 2]. Note: Probably one of the 'Landscape Near H & M Ranch' in 1931 exh" [painting in 1931 exhibition not listed this way, see below]. Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold to General Mills Co. by Halpert, Dec. 1958." Pictured in 1931 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix figure 43. See cat. no. 1856. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Backing:
- "Rust . . . 1930" [inscription obscured by label] (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
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)
2008–2009
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1953
Dallas Museum of Art (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
Mayo Hill Galleries (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
1965
Kohler Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Museum of Art - Deland (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Milton College (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
562
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