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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Place, 1942
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Place, 1942
Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches
CR No. 1039
Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches
Collection:Private Collection
CR No. 1039

Two craggy, reddish gray hills flank two central rolling black hills striped with thin gray strata. Small, pale yellow bushes grow on the outer hills. A blue sky hangs overhead.

CR No. 1039

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Black Place

Source of title: backing inscription.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

The Black Place – No. 1

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

Black Place with Weeds

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Stretcher: inaccessible. Verso: inaccessible. Backing: "Black Place" (graphite) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Dr. and Mrs. John Alfred Cook, New York, NY, 1958; (Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 4/16/2026

Source System ID

8960

Other IDs

1039, Catalogue Raisonné