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Georgia O'Keeffe
Out Back of Marie's I, 1930
Image: okeeffe_CR731_out-back-of-maries-i_793832.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Out Back of Marie's I, 1930
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches
CR No. 731
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 731

Green trees fill the foreground of the image. Craggy pink hills run across the landscape behind the trees. In the distance, tall black and blue mountains stand beneath a gray sky.

CR No. 731

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Out Back of Marie's I

Source of title: backing inscription 1, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Landscape Near H & M Ranch, Toward Abiquiú, N. M.

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

Out Back of Marie's

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

I in first title written in by O'Keeffe in black ink in Abiquiú Notebooks. Not recorded Whitney Archive. Pictured in 1931 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 48. See cat. no. 1866. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Out Back of Marie's – 30" (graphite) 2. OK {5star} (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(Doris Bry, New York, NY); Private collection, Darien, Connecticut, 1973; Christie's, New York, NY, sale no. 5794, lot no. 316, 7 December 1984; Private collection, Weston, Massachusetts, 1984; (Sunne Savage, Boston, Massachusetts); Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY, 1997; (Aptekar Arts Management, Brookline, Massachusetts) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Source System ID

8773

Other IDs

731, Catalogue Raisonné