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Georgia O'Keeffe
Another Church, New Mexico, 1931
Courtesy of American Museum of Western Art.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Another Church, New Mexico, 1931
Oil on canvas, 10 x 23 7/8 inches
CR No. 770
American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection
Oil on canvas, 10 x 23 7/8 inches
American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection
CR No. 770

A tan adobe wall stretches across the landscape-oriented canvas. In the center of the wall is a doorway made of light gray wood. Rising above the wall and visible through the doorway is an adobe church with its door open. Inside, the church is bright white. In the courtyard between the door and the church stands a small, pale orange altar with a cross. Rising behind the adobe structures are rolling brown hills dotted with green bushes or trees. A bright blue sky stretches above.

CR No. 770

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Another Church, New Mexico

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title

Another Church, Hernandez, New Mexico

Source of title: American Museum of Western Art based on Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Painters and the American West, Volume II (Denver: American Museum of Western Art, 2013), p. 260.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, April 1946. . . . On backing: label, 'Another Church, New Mexico' 31. Initials [not verified]. This is not Ranchos Church. Front of small church, cross seen through doorway." See cat. no. 1807. Pictured in 1931–32 New York (An American Place) Norman installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 51B. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY)
Dr. Abram Kanoff, New York, NY, 1947
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, NY, 1972
The Anschutz Collection, Denver, CO, 1972
The Anshutz Collection became part of the American Museum of Western Art—The Anschutz Collection, 2010
(Source: American Museum of Western Art, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 8/26/2026

Last verified by current collection Dec 24 2025

Source System ID

8785

Other IDs

770, Catalogue Raisonné