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Purple Hills

Georgia O'Keeffe (AKA Georgia Totto O'Keeffe), American, (November 15, 1887–March 6, 1986)

Creation date: 1935
Creation place: United States

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge
Accession Number: 1976.216
State/Province: New Mexico
Dimensions: 16 in. x 30 in. (40.64 cm x 76.2 cm)

Provenance

Doris Bry, New York, New York ( - 1971)

Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, New York (1935 - )

Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge, La Jolla, California (1971 - January 14, 1977)

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (January 14, 1977 - )

Label Copy

The land and the intense sun inspired O'Keeffe, and these factors continued to influence her paintings until her death. Abiquiu is located approximately fifty miles north of Santa Fe, and its outlying areas served as the inspiration for the minimalist landscape Purple Hills near Abiquiu. In September 1942, O’Keeffe wrote to her good friend Arthur Dove (1880–1946), “I wish you could see what I see out the window—the earth pink and yellow cliffs to the north—the full pale moon about to go down in an early morning lavender sky behind a very long beautiful tree covered mesa to the west—pink and purple hills in front and the scrubby fine dull green cedars—and a feeling of much space.”
Last Updated: 11/8/2017

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

Georgia O'Keeffe The Art Institute of Chicago , 1/21/1943 - 2/22/1943

New Mexico: As Painted by Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, The Downtown Gallery, Inc. , 2/3/1957 - 3/30/1957

Stieglitz Circle: Demuth, Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe, Weber Pomona College Gallery , 10/11/1958 - 11/15/1958

An Exhibition by Georgia O'Keeffe Worcester Art Museum , 10/4/1960 - 12/4/1960

Six Painters Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design , 3/1/1963 - 4/1/1963

Georgia O'Keeffe Whitney Museum of American Art , 10/8/1970 - 4/30/1971

Out of Sight: Works of Art from San Diego Collections San Diego Museum of Art , 3/18/1972 - 4/23/1972

Collectors Phoenix Art Museum , 9/9/1977 - 10/16/1977

Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors and Drawings Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery , 9/9/1980 - 10/19/1980

Georgia O'Keeffe , 12/1/1980 - 2/1/1981

Georgia O'Keeffe: A Retrospective , 1/23/1983 - 4/10/1983

Nevelson and O'Keeffe: Independents of the Twentieth Century Nassau County Museum of Art , 1/30/1983 - 4/10/1983

The Walbridge Legacy The San Diego Museum of Art , 4/9/1988 - 5/29/1988

Looking at America: An Exhibition Featuring Selections from the San Diego Museum Charles H. MacNider Museum , 8/21/1992 - 10/4/1992

Georgia O'Keeffe Kunsthaus Zurich , 10/24/2003 - 2/4/2004

Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center , 6/11/2004 - 5/15/2005

Illumination: The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin, and , 5/3/2009 - 6/14/2010

Georgia O'Keeffe , 10/4/2011 - 9/1/2012

Newman in Context , 6/29/2013 - 9/8/2013

American: Art of the 20th Century San Diego Museum of Art , 1/18/2014 - 8/26/2014

Art of the 20th Century , 3/28/2015 - 8/16/2015

Georgia O'Keeffe Tate Modern , 7/6/2016 - 10/30/2016

American Art The San Diego Museum of Art , 11/26/2016 - 8/15/2021

Women of the Southwest The San Diego Museum of Art , 3/2/2019 - 8/25/2019

O'Keeffe Test for training , 10/19/2022 - 2/15/2023

O’Keeffe and Moore , 5/12/2023 - 1/20/2025

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Ms. Mary Stofflet. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1993
Page Number: 178

The Walbridge Legacy San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1988
Page Number: 62-63

Henry M. Sayre. A World of Art Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1997
Page Number: 473, Figure Number: 687

Elizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe Barnes & Noble, Inc.. New York, New York, 1993
Page Number: 106, Figure Number: 106

Elizabeth Montgomery. Georgia O'Keeffe Barnes & Noble, Inc.. New York, New York, 1993 (reprinted 1998)
Page Number: 106, Figure Number: 106

Susan Wright. Georgia O'Keeffe: Smithmark Publishers. New York, New York, 1996
Page Number: 88-89, Figure Number: 88-89

Henry M. Sayre. A World of Art Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2000
Page Number: 499, Figure Number: 724

Lloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry. Georgia O'Keeffe Praeger Publishers, Inc.. New York, New York, 1970
Page Number: 34, no. 83

Lloyd Goodrich and Doris Bry. Georgia O'Keeffe Praeger Publishers, Inc.. New York, New York, 1970
Page Number: 83, Figure Number: 83

Jay K. Maurer and Irene E. Schoenberg. True Colors: Addison Wesley Longman. White Plains, New York, 1999
Page Number: ii, 96, Figure Number: 3

An Exhibition by Georgia O'Keeffe Worcester Art Museum. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1960
Page Number: no. 16

Doris Bry, ed. Georgia O'Keeffe: Alfred A. Knopf. New York, New York, 1989
Page Number: 33, Figure Number: 33

Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe: Yale University Press. New Haven, Connecticut, 1999
Page Number: 559, no. 870, Figure Number: 870

Georgia O'Keeffe: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1980
Page Number: 20, no. 35, 37, Figure Number: 35

Six Painters Kansas City Art Institute. Kansas City, Missouri, 1963
Page Number: 7

Stieglitz Circle: Pomona College Gallery. Claremont, California, 1958
Page Number: no. 51

Constance Schwartz. Nevelson and O'Keeffe: Nassau County Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, New York, 1983
Page Number: 32, Figure Number: 35

Daniel Catton Rich. Georgia O'Keeffe The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois, 1943
Page Number: 45, no. 51

Ronald D. Hickman. Collectors Phoenix Art Museum. Phoenix, Arizona, 1977
Page Number: Cat. no. 40, Figure Number: 40

Mr. D. Scott Atkinson. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 2003
Page Number: 201, Figure Number: 201

Georgia O'Keeffe Hatje Cantz Publishers. 2003
Page Number: 194 no. 39

Georgia O'Keeffe Hatje Cantz Publishers. 2003
Page Number: 107, Figure Number: 39

Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004
Page Number: 72, Figure Number: 28

Barbara Buhler Lynes. Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2004
Page Number: 130 no. 23

CAS Contemporary Art Start The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007. 2007
Page Number: 7, Figure Number: 235

. Georgia O'Keeffe Musée de Grenoble. Grenoble, France, 2015
Page Number: 126-127, Figure Number: 39

Tanya Barson. Georgia O'Keeffe Tate Publishing. 2016
Page Number: 162, Figure Number: 147

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