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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 (Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

77

Other IDs

730, Catalogue Raisonné