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Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
CR No. 1050
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Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Purchase, R. H. Norton Trust, 58.29
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The twisting, bright white form of an animal's pelvis stretches from the bottom to the top of the vertically oriented canvas. A pale blue sky surrounds the bone and appears through its holes. A white moon hovers at the top of the composition, with the blue form of Pedernal stretching out below.
CR No. 1050
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pelvis with the Moon – New Mexico
Source of title: Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Pelvis With the Moon
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Pelvis With Moon
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
General Remarks
Reproduced and titled Pelvis with the Moon, New Mexico in PM (December 1945). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "Pelvis with the Moon — 1943 / by. . ." (Andrew Droth, Label: handwritten, "An American Place' / 509 Madison Avenue / New York — N.Y. / Georgia O'Keeffe" [partial], black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
1981–1982
1998–1999
2008–2009
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities)
2007–2008
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
2017–2020
Brooklyn Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Reynolda House Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Peabody Essex Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
The Cleveland Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Wichita Art Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Nevada Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern)
1959
Whitney Museum of American Art (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
The Israel Museum (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
Museum of Modern Art (Israel) (as The Museum and Its Friends: Eighteen living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum)
The Downtown Gallery, New York
(Source: Norton Museum of Art, 2025)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection Sep 24 2025
Source System ID
9434
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