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Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 29 3/4 inches
CR No. 1049
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The bright white form of an animal's pelvis bone dominates the composition. A landscape featuring flat, yellow earth dotted with green bushes and blue mountains rising beyond stretches out in the background. A light blue, cloudless sky hovers above.
CR No. 1049
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pelvis with Distance
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pelvis with the Distance
(Title used by Newfields.)
General Remarks
Reproduced in Magazine of Art (March 1944); as Pelvis with the Distance in New York Times (May 1946). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Backing: "No.5 of Catalogue/ O'Keeffe Exhibition Jan.11—M'ch 11, 1944 / Pelvis with the Distance, 1943 / (New Mexico by Georgia O'Keeffe.)" (Alfred Stieglitz, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Ave —Room 1710 / (S.E. corner 53rd St) — New York", black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Centre Georges Pompidou (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
Fondation Beyeler (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Painter's Lens)
1946
1965
Kohler Gallery (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Museum of Art - Deland (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Milton College (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Artist; purchased by Caroline Marmon Fesler, Indianapolis, Indiana; by descent to Anne Marmon Greenleaf, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1960; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, in 1977. (Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art website, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection 2025
Source System ID
8971
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