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Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches
CR No. 730
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.15
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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:
- "30" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "
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) - "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
1986
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Gerald Peters Gallery
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Yokohama Museum of Art
1998–1999
2003–2004
2004–2005
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Columbus Museum of Art
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG)
2008–2009
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
San Jose Museum of Art
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Norton Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
2010–2011
2011–2012
2016–2017
2017–2019
2018–2019
2019
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Centre Georges Pompidou
Fondation Beyeler
2025–2026
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)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 8/26/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
77
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