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Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches
CR No. 742
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Gift of M. Rosalie Leidinger and Louise W. Schmidt
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A tall, green mountain with patches of pink stands above a strip of bright yellow earth. Pale green sagebrush plants fill the foreground of the image.
CR No. 742
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Taos Mountain, New Mexico
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Near Alcalde – New Mexico
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Taos Mountain – New Mexico
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Near Alcalde, Taos Mountain, New Mexico
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
General Remarks
Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. ... No signature [notes inscription 3]. Probably one of the Landscape toward Abiquiú series in 1931 exh." Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977 indicates, "Sold by Halpert ... April 18 1961." Pictured in 1931–32 New York (An American Place) Norman installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 51A. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Backing:
- OK {circle} (graphite)
- "
Near Alcalde{crossed out} Taos Mountain [crossing out and 'Taos Mountain' by Andrew Droth, black ink] — New Mexico — 1930 / by George Okeeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black crayon) - "Georgia O'Keeffe 4 / 1930 / Taos Mountain — New Mexico" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink)
- Alfred Stieglitz [twice] (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Signed on backing, in graphite: OK [in circle]; inscribed, on backing, in Alfred Stieglitz's hand: Near~~ Alcalde~~ [struckout] Taos Mountain [inserted as correction below "Near Alcalde," in O'Keeffe's hand?] - New Mexico - 1930 / by Georgia O'Keeffe; stamped twice on backing: ALFRED STIEGLITZ / LAKE GEORGE, N.Y.; label on backing stamped: AN AMERICAN PLACE / ROOM 1710-509 MADISON AVE. / NEW YORK, -N.Y. [and inscribed]: Georgia O'Keeffe 4 / 1930 / Taos Mountain - New Mexico [label is torn in lower right corner to remove price]; Downtown Gallery; label on backing printed: THE DOWNTOWN GALLERY . 32 E. 51st. ST., New York / ARTIST...GEORGIA O'KEEFFE..No...279 / TITLE ... TAOS MOUNTAIN, NEW MEXICO... DATE...1930...MEDIUM...OIL...SIZE...30x16 ...S.P>...; label on backing stamped: FINE ARTS CONSERVATION LABORATORIES [typed:] SPRAYED WITH: / Lucite #46, Acrylic Resin, Co. / polymer of N-Butyl and Isobutyl / Methacrylate. / April 1961. (Source: Hood Museum of Art, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
Downtown Gallery, New York; sold to M. Rosalie Leidinger (1906-1991) and Louis W. Schmidt (1909-1995), Norwich, Vermont, 1961; given to present collection, 1993.
(Source: Hood Museum of Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Oct 07 2025
Source System ID
563
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Conservation
Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by Hood Museum of Art in 2025 and reports conservation work from 1992, 1994, and 2014.
1992 – Frame was toned with microcrystalline wax and dry pigment.
1994 – Surface cleaning to remove nicotine and grime layers from both canvas and frame; painting was keyed out to proper tension; replaced backing board with new sheet of Fome-cor and new hanging hardware was added to the stretcher.
2014 – Painting was fitted into a microclimate enclosure; artwork was attached to a Dibond aluminum composite panel.
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