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Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
CR No. 1114
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Gift from the Estate of Mrs. Eugene McDermott
2019.15.1
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O'Keeffe describes this painting as " just the arms of two red hills reaching out to the sky holding it." This painting can be viewed as an organic abstraction contemplating the intersection of an expansive flat of blue sky and the V shape of the sandy red hills below.
CR No. 1114
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Red Hills and Sky
Source of title: backing inscription, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Red Hills & Sky
Source of title: Whitney Archive in 1969.
Blue And Red Hills
Source of title: Whitney Archive in 1969.
General Remarks
Whitney Archive indicates, "Exam. at Amer. Place, March 1946.... No signature. In O'Keeffe exit, at Amer. Place, Feb.—Mar. 1946, but not listed in catalogue. Title given by Stieglitz." Abiquiú Notebooks indicates, "Back by Andrew [Andrew Droth] 'Blue and Red Hills'" [not verified]. O'Keeffe wrote: "A little way out beyond my kitchen window at the Ranch is a V shape in the red hills. I passed the V many times — sometimes stopping to look as it spoke to me quietly. I one day carried my canvas out and made a drawing of it. The shapes of the drawing were so simple that it scarcely seemed worth while to bother with it any further. But I did a painting—just the arms of two red hills reaching out to the sky holding it" (Georgia O'Keeffe [1976], unpaginated, text accompanying entry 85). (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: "Red Hills and Sky / 1945 / oil / 30 x 40 / Canvas / Sunami 6810" (Label: printed, O'Keeffe (red-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1966
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)
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1946
1946
1997–1998
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
9722
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