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Rust Red Hills, 1930
Image: okeeffe_CR740_rust-red-hills_794083.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Rust Red Hills, 1930
Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
CR No. 740
Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 740

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:

  1. "Rust . . . 1930" [inscription obscured by label] (graphite)
  2. OK {5star} (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

562

Other IDs

740, Catalogue Raisonné