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Georgia O'Keeffe
Pelvis II, 1944
Image: okeeffe_CR1076_pelvis-ii_714120.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pelvis II, 1944
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 1076
George A. Hearn Fund
Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
George A. Hearn Fund
CR No. 1076

The arching white forms of an animal's pelvis dominate the canvas. Behind the pelvis, a plain blue background fills the remainder of the frame. The central form in the composition is a circular hole in the pelvis through which the blue background is visible.

CR No. 1076

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Pelvis II

Source of title: Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Pelvis – II

General Remarks

Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946. ... No sig" [notes backing inscription]. Whitney Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks indicate, "Bought by Met Mus. from above" [1946 Whitney exhibition]. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Backing: "Pelvis — II" (AD, AAP4, black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Oil Painting

Materials

Oil on canvas

Robert Beverly Hale. "The American Moderns." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 16 (Summer 1957), ill. p. 25.

Edward F. Weeks. "American Masters, 1872–1972." Birmingham Museum of Art Bulletin (1972), unpaginated, no. 28, dates it about 1944, calls it "Pelvis #2".

Lisa Mintz Messinger. "Georgia O'Keeffe." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), p. 52, fig. 51 (color).

Philippe de Montebello. "[Director's Note]." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 42 (Fall 1984), p. 2.

Piri Halasz. "Manhattan Museums: The 1940s vs. the 1980s; Part Two: The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Arts Magazine 59 (March 1985), pp. 91, 93.

Erika Billeter. "Georgia O'Keeffe's Bilder." Du (May 1987), ill. p. 61 (color).

Elizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1993, ill. p. 87 (color).

Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, Conn., 1999, vol. 2, p. 678, no. 1076, ill. (color) (upside down).

Lisa Messinger in Peter Barnet and Atsuyuki Nakahara. Earth, Sea, Sky, Nature in Western Art: Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat.Tokyo, 2012, pp. 244–45, no. 111, ill. (color).

The artist (1944–47; sold to MMA) (Source: The Met, 2025)

Credits & Rights

© Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 3/30/2026

Source System ID

9437

Other IDs

1076, Catalogue Raisonné