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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pelvis with Distance, 1943
Courtesy of Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Image: okeeffe_CR1049_pelvis-with-distance_863383.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pelvis with Distance, 1943
Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 29 3/4 inches
CR No. 1049
Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 29 3/4 inches
CR No. 1049

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

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)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Last verified by current collection 2025

Source System ID

8971

Other IDs

1049, Catalogue Raisonné