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Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Hill Forms, 1936
Courtesy of University of New Mexico Art Museum.
Image: okeeffe_CR895_grey-hill-forms_857781.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Hill Forms, 1936
Oil on canvas, 20 1/16 x 30 1/16 inches
CR No. 895
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Gift of the Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987
Oil on canvas, 20 1/16 x 30 1/16 inches
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Gift of the Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987
CR No. 895

Tall, craggy gray hills with hints of red and yellow spread across the canvas. A few blue-gray bushes populate the flat land at the base of the hills. A small strip of clear blue sky is visible above the landscape.

CR No. 895

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Grey Hill Forms

Source of title: backing inscription 1, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Grey Hills – I

Grey Wash Forms

General Remarks

Museum files record lost inscription from verso: OK ☆ {star} (unidentified hand, medium unknown); "One of O'Keeffe's best works in her personal collection" (probably Stieglitz, medium unknown). O'Keeffe wrote: "The Black Place is about one hundred and fifty miles from Ghost Ranch, and as you come to it over a hill, it looks like a mile of elephants—grey hills all about the same size with almost white sand at their feet" (Georgia O'Keeffe 1976, unpaginated, text accompanying entry 59). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions
  1. "Grey Hill Forms — 36" (graphite)
  2. OK {5-star} (graphite)
  3. "New York — N.Y." (MC label, black ink)
  4. AAP2
  5. AAP9 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Backing of original piece has been removed, lives separately from piece in storage. From top left to bottom right:

  1. “P87.1.1” (medium unknown)
  2. An American Place label
  3. “Grey Hill Forms – 36” (graphite)
  4. Hayward Gallery label
  5. Art Institute of Chicago label
  6. An American place stamp
  7. “43 / 29” (medium unknown)
  8. OK {5 star}
  9. “7 – 19 p” (written upside down, medium unknown)
  10. UNMAM label
  11. Doris Bry label
  12. McMichael label
  13. Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts label
  14. P87.1.1 (Source: UNM Art Museum, 2025)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

1987
Gift from the Estate of Georgia O’Keeffe. Permanent loan from the New Mexico Museum of Art.
(Source: UNM Art Museum, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© New Mexico Museum of Art

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection Jul 28 2025

Source System ID

580

Other IDs

895, Catalogue Raisonné