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Oil on canvas, 14 x 20 inches
CR No. 929
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American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection
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Rolling, bright red hills fill the frame. Two large hills rise on the right and left side of the composition, with an arching, river-like strip of dark red flowing between the two. On the leftmost hill, craggy arroyos run through its smooth surface. A soft, cream-colored sky stretches above the landscape.
CR No. 929
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Red Hills Grey Sky
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Red Hills Gray Sky
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Red Hills
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Red Hills, Grey Sky
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
General Remarks
Double entries Downtown Gallery Archive. Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. . . . No signature. From Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 1937. See gallery photograph" [not verified]. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Lynes publication dates work as 1937, American Museum of Western Art dates as 1935 based on Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Painters and the American West, Volume II (Denver: American Museum of Western Art, 2013), p. 260 and A Collection of Drawings & Watercolors by Charles Demuth: American 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors & Sculpture Thursday, October 28th, 1976 at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1976), lot 183.] (Source: Information provided for Access O'Keeffe by American Museum of Western Art, 2025)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: 1. "Red Hills / by Georgia O'Keeffe" (Andrew Droth, Label: printed, An American Place, black ink) 2. "Red Hills" (Andrew Droth, graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1937–1938
2008–2009
Portland Museum of Art (Maine)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
2012–2014
Montclair Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Heard Museum
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY)
Private collection, Syosset, NY, 1962
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, NY, sale no. 3913, lot no. 183, 28 October 1976
The Anschutz Collection, Denver, CO, 1976
The Anshutz Collection became part of the American Museum of Western Art—The Anschutz Collection, 2010
(Source: American Museum of Western Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 8/26/2026
Last verified by current collection Dec 24 2025
Source System ID
8893
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