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Georgia O'Keeffe
Hollyhock Pink with the Pedernal, New Mexico, 1937
Image courtesy of a scanned transparency made for Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. This image has not been color proofed and may differ from the original. It will be replaced when newer photography becomes available.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Hollyhock Pink with the Pedernal, New Mexico, 1937
Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches
CR No. 924
Milwaukee Art Museum, extended loan
Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches
Milwaukee Art Museum, extended loan
CR No. 924

An enlarged, bright pink hollyhock with a yellow center occupies the upper right corner of the work. The flower hovers over a landscape that features a blue, pink, and green rendering of Pedernal below a vast blue sky.

CR No. 924

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Hollyhock Pink with the Pedernal, New Mexico

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Hollyhock Pink with Pedernal – New Mexico

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Hollyhock Pink with Pedernal New Mexico

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Hollyhock Pink with Pedernal

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks. (Title used by Milwaukee Art Museum.)

Hollyhock Pink with the Pedernal

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Painted. New Mexico, 1937. See gallery photograph." Pictured in 1937–38 New York (An American Place) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 65. Titled Hollyhock Pink with the Pedernal by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Hollyhock Pink with Pedernal – / New Mexico – 1937 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Alfred Stieglitz, black ink) 2. "For Milwaukee Art Institute / Milwaukee, Wis" (Alfred Stieglitz, graphite) 3. Hollyhock Pink with Pedernal / New Mexico 1937 / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (William Einstein, Label: stamped, "An American Place / Room 1710— 509 Madison Ave. / New York, — N.Y." (blue-bordered), black ink) 4. Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York"1 (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Estate of the artist, 1986
Private collection, bequest, 1987
Private collection, bequest, 1988
Extended loan to Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001
(Source: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 2026)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 11/11/2026

Source System ID

8891

Other IDs

924, Catalogue Raisonné

Conservation

Information is from the most recently submitted report, please contact the current owner to verify updated details.
REPORT NOTES

Published with corresponding artwork entry in Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Lynes, 1999), this historical conservation information documents treatment decisions made during the artist’s lifetime. Lynes quotes information found on backing labels, and, when noted, from other sources.

CONDITION NARRATIVE

"Sprayed by Felrath Hines. Jan. 1956 Varnish of Lucite 46 dissolved in xylene and benzene" (label, typed).