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Red Hills, Blue Sky, 1937
Courtesy of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
Image: okeeffe_CR927_red-hills-blue-sky_863465.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Hills, Blue Sky, 1937
Oil on canvas, 9 x 14 1/8 inches
CR No. 927
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Lurie Kramer Collection; Bequest of Helen Kroll Kramer; 77.062.007
Oil on canvas, 9 x 14 1/8 inches
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Lurie Kramer Collection; Bequest of Helen Kroll Kramer; 77.062.007
CR No. 927

Rippling brown hills fill the frame. An arroyo running between the hills zigzags through the composition. A bright blue sky glows overhead.

CR No. 927

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Red Hills, Blue Sky

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Red Hills III

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Red Hills Blue Sky

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Pink Hills

Source of title: Downtown Gallery label. (Title used by Johnson Museum of Art.)

Selected Exhibition Titles

Red Hills, Blue Sky
O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, 2004, Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus)

Red Hills, Blue Sky
O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place, 2004, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: "#6" (unidentified hand, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.)
Dr. and Mrs. Milton Lurie Kramer, New York, N.Y., 1948
Descended in family
Estate of Helen Kroll Kramer, 1977
(Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection Sep 14 2025

Source System ID

585

Other IDs

927, Catalogue Raisonné