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Oil on Masonite (fiberboard), 36 1/16 x 40 3/8 inches
CR No. 1078
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.1
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Extreme close-up view of the socket of a pelvic bone - the white of the bone filling to three corners of the canvas. Through the hole, centered in the middle, is seen a blue sky with a pale and transparent almost full moon in the upper left of the opening. A sliver of blue is also in the lower right corner where the bone curves in.
CR No. 1078
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pelvis IV
Source of title: backing inscriptions 1, 2, Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pelvis – IV
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Pelvis IV (Oval with Moon)
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946....No signature. On backing: Label, "Pelvis IV (oval with moon) 1944 [oval with moon not verified]. Not listed in 1945 catalogue but O'Keeffe says same series and ptd. 1944." O'Keeffe, Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks, Downtown Gallery Archive date 1944. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions: Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing:
- "Pelvis IV/ 1944 / oil / 36 x 40 / Masonite / Baker 5644" (black ink, Label: printed, O'Keeffe (red-bordered)) 2.. "Georgia O'Keeffe/ Abiquiu, N.M. / Pelvis IV / Abiquiu, N.M. / via express Santa Fe N.M." (1947 Art Institute of Chicago label label, black ink)
- "Pelvis - IV" (Andrew Droth, Label: printed, An American Place exhibition, Paintings 1944, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on Masonite (fiberboard)
1946
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
1997–1998
1998–1999
1999–2000
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Dallas Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2004–2005
Boise Art Museum
Hunter Museum of American Art
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Fresno Metropolitan Museum
University of Michigan, Museum of Art
2006
Mississippi Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG)
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Norton Museum of Art
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Heide Museum of Modern Art
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Estate of the artist, 1986
Private collection, 1987
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Private Collection*
Version History
Core fields last updated 7/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
87
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