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Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Hills Grey Sky, 1937
Courtesy of American Museum of Western Art.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Red Hills Grey Sky, 1937
Oil on canvas, 14 x 20 inches
CR No. 929
American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection
Oil on canvas, 14 x 20 inches
American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection
CR No. 929

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

(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)

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

8893

Other IDs

929, Catalogue Raisonné