Red Hills with Flowers

1940

Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)

Status: On View, Gallery 265
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Red Hills with Flowers
Places: United States (Artist's nationality), New Mexico (Object made in)
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed, inscribed, and dated verso, artist's backing board middle, in black ink: Georgia O’Keeffe / Red Hills with Flowers / Summer 1940 / ✡[hexagram]
Dimensions: 30.5 × 76.5 cm (12 × 30 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mary P. Hines
Reference Number: 2022.618

“Georgia O’Keeffe: The American Southwest,” American Artist 40 (Jan. 1976): 79 (ill.).
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art/Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation/Yale University Press, 1999), cat. 995.

New York, An American Place, Exhibition of Georgia O’Keeffe, Jan. 27–Mar. 11, 1941, cat. 7.
Charleston, SC, Carolina Art Association, Gibbes Art Gallery, Georgia O’Keeffe, Feb. 8–March 6, 1955, cat. 14, as Red Hills with Flowers—Summer.
Manchester, NH, Currier Gallery of Art, Four MacDowell Medalists: Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, Louise Nevelson, Georgia O’Keeffe, June 30–July 29, 1973, checklist; Keene, NH, Louise E. Thorne Memorial Art Gallery, Keene State College, Aug. 19–Sept. 15, 1973.
Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, The Expressionist Landscape, North American Modernist Painting, 1920–1947, Sept. 11-Nov. 4, 1987, cat. 87, ill. fig. 124; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, Nov. 24, 1987-Jan. 30, 1988; Syracuse, NY, Everson Museum of Art, Feb. 14-Mar. 27, 1988; Akron, OH, Akron Art Museum, Apr. 9–June 5, 1988; Vancouver, Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery, June 30–Aug. 21, 1988.

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), NY and NM, 1940 [O’Keeffe moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949]; consigned to Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1985; sold to the Warner Collection of the Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, AL, 1985; consigned to Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 1996; sold to Mary P. Hines (1931–2020), Winnetka, IL, 1997; Estate of Mary P. Hines, 2020; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

Lynes 1999 995

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