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Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches
CR No. 1076
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George A. Hearn Fund
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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
1978
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)
1946–1947
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
University of Michigan, Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Springfield Museums (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Delaware Art Museum (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Baltimore Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Phillips Memorial Gallery (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
New Orleans Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Minnesota Museum of American Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Columbus Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Munson Museum (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
Smith College Museum of Art (as Pioneers of Modern Art in America)
1951
Berliner Festwochen (Rathaus Schöneberg, Ausstellungssaal) (as Amerikanische Malerei: Werden and Gegenwart)
Schloss Charlottenburg (as Amerikanische Malerei: Werden and Gegenwart)
Amerikahaus (as Amerikanische Malerei: Werden and Gegenwart)
1951
1953
Dallas Museum of Art (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
Mayo Hill Galleries (as An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe)
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)
© Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
9437
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