Red Hills and Bones
Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887 - 1986
Geography:
Made in United States, North and Central America
Date:
1941Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
29 3/4 × 40 inches (75.6 × 101.6 cm)Curatorial Department:
American ArtObject Location:
1949-18-109Credit Line:
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Made in United States, North and Central America
Date:
1941Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
29 3/4 × 40 inches (75.6 × 101.6 cm)Curatorial Department:
American ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1949-18-109Credit Line:
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Label:
Georgia O'Keeffe began spending summers in New Mexico in 1929, and over the course of the next six decades she turned her brush to the richly colored scenery of the American Southwest. Here, red hills fill the canvas from edge to edge, while the bleached bones in the foreground reflect the hot, dry climate of the region. Like many of O'Keeffe's landscapes, this painting represents a location near her house, Ghost Ranch, distilled to poetic, abstracted shapes that reflect the monumentality she finds in even the simplest natural forms.
Georgia O'Keeffe began spending summers in New Mexico in 1929, and over the course of the next six decades she turned her brush to the richly colored scenery of the American Southwest. Here, red hills fill the canvas from edge to edge, while the bleached bones in the foreground reflect the hot, dry climate of the region. Like many of O'Keeffe's landscapes, this painting represents a location near her house, Ghost Ranch, distilled to poetic, abstracted shapes that reflect the monumentality she finds in even the simplest natural forms.