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Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches
CR No. 837
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.20
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Horizontal landscape of dark reddish crimson clay hills that flow down into softly rounded smaller hills below. The smaller hills are a lighter pink tinged with grey at the tops.
CR No. 837
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Purple Hills Ghost Ranch – 2/Purple Hills No II
Source of title: backing inscriptions 1,3.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
New Mexico
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Purple Hills – No. 6 – Ghost Ranch
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Red Hill Form – Bad Lands, New Mexico
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Dark Hills, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Dark Hills, Ghost Ranch, N.M.
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Purple Hills II, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Purple Hills II, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Backing:
- "Purple Hills Ghost Ranch - 2 - 34" (graphite)
- OK {5star} (graphite)
- "Georgia O'Keeffe / Purples Hills No II - 1934 / Ghost Ranch, New Mexico" (black ink)
- "New Mexico 1934 / Georgia O'Keeffe/ An American Place / 509 Madison Ave / New York / City / net $3750 ['net $3750' in oval]" (As, black crayon)
- "Purple Hills / No. 6 / Ghost Ranch 1934 / New Mexico / by. Georgia O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
2003–2004
1988–1989
Phoenix Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
National Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
Aspen Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Selected Painting)
2020–2021
2008–2009
Smithsonian American Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2010–2013
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image)
None (as Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image)
2014–2015
2001
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist's First Exhibition in the South)
Muscarelle Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe in Williamsburg: A Re-Creation of the Artist's First Exhibition in the South)
2018–2019
2008–2009
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
San Jose Museum of Art (as Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism)
2016–2017
Heide Museum of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
Art Gallery of New South Wales (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art (as O'Keeffe, Preston, and Cossington Smith: Making Modernism (working title) (Australian Modernism))
1997–1998
1998–1999
2004–2005
Buffalo AKG Art Museum (as O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place)
Columbus Museum of Art (as O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place)
2017–2019
2019–2020
(An American Place, New York, N.Y.)
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Altschul, Stamford, Conn., 1939/40
Estate of Mrs. Frank Altschul, 1985
(James Graham & Sons, New York, N.Y.), 1986
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1987
Private collection, Philadelphia, Pa., 1988
(Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, N.Mex., )
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 4/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
79
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