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Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Hills and Bones, 1941
Courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Hills and Bones, 1941
Oil on canvas, 29 3/4 × 40 inches
CR No. 1025
Oil on canvas, 29 3/4 × 40 inches
CR No. 1025

Two animal bones sit at the bottom of the canvas. Extending behind the bones are dark red, orange, and yellow hills dotted with green and white bushes. A large, dark red hill rises above the scene, dwarfed by tall orange cliffs standing behind it.

CR No. 1025

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Red Hills and Bones

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, 1942 New York (An American Place) exhibition checklist.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted 1941. Infor. from Miss Bry of an American Place, July 1949: On permanent loan to the Philadelphia Museum of art from Georgia O'Keeffe as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Reproduced Art News (February 1943). (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Backing: 1. "New York—N.Y." (AIC label, black ink) 2. AAP2 3. AAP9 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Collection of the artist, until c. 1942; Alfred Stieglitz (1864‑1946), An American Place, NY, c. 1942‑until d. 1946; estate of Alfred Stieglitz, 1946‑1949 [1]; gift to PMA, 1949.

1. Georgia O’Keeffe was executor for the estate of Alfred Stieglitz and made the selection for the PMA. See letter from Henri Marceau to O'Keeffe on July 7, 1949.

(Source: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 4/16/2026

Source System ID

594

Other IDs

1025, Catalogue Raisonné