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Oil on canvas, 36 x 40 1/8 inches
CR No. 914
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Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959
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Two sets of antlers frame a brown and gray mule deer skull. The skull hovers over a pink, barren desert landscape with low rolling hills. Overhead, the sky transitions from pink to blue at the very top of the painting.
CR No. 914
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
From the Faraway Nearby (Deer's Horns, Near Cameron)
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
From the Faraway Nearby
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Deer's Horns Near Cameron
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
From the Faraway, Nearby Deer's Horns Near Cameron
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Alternate Title
From the Faraway, Nearby
Source of title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Selected Exhibition Titles
From the Faraway Nearby
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things, 1999, The Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
General Remarks
Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. In Abiquiú Notebooks "(Deer's Horn Near Cameron)" written in, unidentified hand. Whitney Archive indicates, "Infor. from Miss Bry (An Amer. Place) July 1949: On permanent loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Georgia O'Keeffe as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Coll." Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks date 1937. Downtown Gallery Archive dates 1937 and 1938. Dated 1937 on basis of inclusion in 1937–38 New York (An American Place) exhibition. Reproduced and titled From the Far Away Nearby in Time (January 1938); reproduced in The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican (January 1938). The title refers to Cameron, Arizona. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Backing: 1. AAP2 2. AAP9 (Source: Lynes, 1999)
The artist (1937–59; on extended loan to MMA, 1949–59; her gift as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to MMA) (Source: The Met, 2025)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1937–1938
1943
1946
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Yokohama Museum of Art
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Dallas Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
2014–2016
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Art Museum of South Texas
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
Tacoma Art Museum
2016–2017
2018–2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
North Carolina Museum of Art
New Britain Museum of American Art
Elizabeth McCausland. "Georgia O'Keeffe Shows Her Latest Paintings." Springfield Sunday Union and Republican (January 2, 1938), p. E6, ill.
"Art: Year." Time (January 3, 1938), p. 28 and suppl., ill.
Paul V. Beckley. "Bulk of Stieglitz Art Collection Going to Metropolitan Museum." New York Herald (June 27, 1949), pp. 1, 11, ill.
George Heard Hamilton. "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), p. 392, fig. 25, as "Deer's Horn, near Cameron (From the Faraway Nearby)".
Irma B. Jaffe. "The Forming of the Avant-Garde, 1900–30." The Genius of American Painting. Ed. John Wilmerding. New York, 1973, ill. p. 221.
Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1976, pl. 72.
Laurie Lisle. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1980, pp. 297–98.
Patricia Janis Broder. The American West: The Modern Vision. Boston, 1984, pp. 170–71, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. "Georgia O'Keeffe." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), pp. 50–51, 61, fig. 49.
Laurie Lisle. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. Albuquerque, 1986, p. 236.
Charles C. Eldredge in Art in New Mexico, 1900–1945: Path to Taos and Santa Fe. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1986, p. 179, fig. 211 (color).
Erika Billeter. "Georgia O'Keeffe's Bilder." Du (May 1987), p. 54, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 77–79, fig. 57.
Michael Berry. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1988, pp. 80–81, ill.
Roxana Robinson. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. New York, 1989, pp. 420–21.
Doris Bry and Nicholas Callaway, ed. Georgia O'Keeffe in the West. New York, 1989, unpaginated no. 40, pl. 40.
Jennifer Saville. Georgia O'Keeffe: Paintings of Hawai'i. Exh. cat., Honolulu Academy of Arts. Honolulu, 1990, p. 31, fig. 12.
Charles Child Eldredge. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1991, pp. 131–33, ill.
Maria Costantino. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1994, pp. 37, 130–31, ill.
Britta Benke. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887–1986: Blumen in der Wüste. Cologne, 1994, pp. 60, 64–66, ill.
Jula Dech. Georgia O'Keeffe: Gemälde. Munich, 1995, pl. 29.
Katherine Hoffman. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Celebration of Music and Dance. New York, 1997, pp. 56, 110, 119, pl. 36.
Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 1, p. 569, no. 914, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2001, p. 134, fig. 85.
Barbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman. O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum. New York, 2001, p. 169 (app. 2: "Works Given to Institutions during the Artist's Lifetime").
Hunter Drohojowska-Philp. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 2004, p. 371.
Janet Souter. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2005, p. 42, pl. 38.
Janet Souter. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 2005, pp. 116, 132, ill., back cover ill.
Susan Wright. Georgia O'Keeffe: An Eternal Spirit. (1st ed., 1996). [New York], 2006, p. 109, ill.
Lothar Schirmer, ed. Georgia O'Keeffe/John Loengard: Paintings and Photographs, a Visit to Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch. Munich, 2006, pl. 51.
Katja Fauth. Modernist Visions in Taos: Mabel Dodge Luhan and the Artists of the Stieglitz Circle. Marburg, Germany, 2009, pp. 174–77, 194, fig. 37.
Lisa Mintz Messinger in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 14, 204, 281–82, no. 191, ill. (color), fig. 13 (installation photo).
Isabelle Duvernois in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, p. 193.
Charles C. Eldredge. Eloquent Objects: Georgia O'Keeffe and Still-Life Art in New Mexico. Exh. cat., Indianapolis Museum of Art. [Memphis], 2014, pp. 42, 156, colorpl. 58.
Mark D. Mitchell in Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2015, p. 239, no. 112, ill. p. 238 (color).
Tanya Barson in Georgia O'Keeffe. Ed. Tanya Barson. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2016, pp. 14, 16, 254, fig. 126 (color).
Georgiana Uhlyarik in Georgia O'Keeffe. Ed. Tanya Barson. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2017, p. 224.
David Anfam. "Exhibitions. 'Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables'." Burlington Magazine 160 (June 2018), p. 502.
Anita Feldman in O'Keeffe and Moore. Ed. Anita Feldman. Exh. cat., San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, 2023, p. 12, fig. 1 (installation view, Exh. New York 1946).
The artist (1937–59; on extended loan to MMA, 1949–59; her gift as part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection to MMA) (Source: The Met, 2025)
© Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Version History
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Source System ID
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