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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie's II, 1930
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie's II, 1930
Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches
CR No. 730
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.15
Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.15
CR No. 730

Horizontal landscape with blue peaks in the background, black and pure ground. Along the bottom edge is a strip of green foliage and trees.

CR No. 730

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie's II

Source of title: O'Keeffe handwritten title in Abiquiú Notebooks and backing inscriptions 3, 4.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Landscape Near H & M, Ranch, Toward Abiquiú, N.M.

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

View From My Studio, New Mexico

Source of title: Whitney Archive.

View from My Studio

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks after 1976.

Black Mesa

Source of title: label printed by O'Keeffe (white).

[View from Studio" Crossed Out] "Out Back of Marie's II"

Source of title: written in by O'Keeffe in black pen in Abiquiú Notebooks.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Out Back of Marie's II
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

Inscriptions

Inscriptions: Stretcher: "A frame / flat frame (Marin) / [drawing of frame] silver frame used for barn 1932" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) Backing:

  1. "30" (graphite)
  2. OK {5star} (graphite)
  3. "Taos {crossed out}" Black Mesa [crossing out and 'Black Mesa' by OK, graphite] Landscape, New Mexico - / Georgia O'Keeffe / artist / (Rm 1710) 509 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y." (As Carnegie label, black ink)
  4. "Taos landscape, New Mexico - / Georgia O'Keeffe / artist / (Rm 1710) 509 Madison Ave. New York, N.Y." (Alfred Stieglitz, Carnegie label [2nd one], black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

George M. Harris, San Antonio, Tex., purchase, 1968
(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex.)
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1966
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 5/20/2026

Source System ID

77

Other IDs

730, Catalogue Raisonné