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Cedar Tree with Lavender Hills, 1937
Courtesy of Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR935_cedar-tree-with-lavender-hills_858561.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Cedar Tree with Lavender Hills, 1937
Oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
CR No. 935
Promised Gift of Barbara B. Millhouse
Oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
Promised Gift of Barbara B. Millhouse
CR No. 935

A bare, twisting, brownish-gray cedar tree stands on a stretch of reddish-brown earth dotted with green bushes. Red and purple hills rise in the distance behind the tree, with a clear blue sky overhead.

CR No. 935

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Cedar Tree with Lavender Hills

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1937–38 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates "From Ghost Ranch. New Mexico 1937. See gallery photograph." Pictured in 1937–38 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 68. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

An American Place, New York, N.Y.

1930s

Eleanor Wilson, New York, N.Y.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, N.Y.

1977

Barbara Babcock Millhouse

(Source: Lynes, 1999 reviewed by Reynolda House, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 03 2025

Source System ID

583

Other IDs

935, Catalogue Raisonné