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Purple Hills Ghost Ranch – 2/Purple Hills No II, 1934
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Purple Hills Ghost Ranch – 2/Purple Hills No II, 1934
Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches
CR No. 837
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.20
Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.20
CR No. 837

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:

  1. "Purple Hills Ghost Ranch - 2 - 34" (graphite)
  2. OK {5star} (graphite)
  3. "Georgia O'Keeffe / Purples Hills No II - 1934 / Ghost Ranch, New Mexico" (black ink)
  4. "New Mexico 1934 / Georgia O'Keeffe/ An American Place / 509 Madison Ave / New York / City / net $3750 ['net $3750' in oval]" (As, black crayon)
  5. "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

(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 (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

79

Other IDs

837, Catalogue Raisonné