Small Purple Hills
Small Purple Hills
Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887 - 1986)
Date1934
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions16 × 19 3/4 in. (40.6 × 50.2 cm)
Framed: 16 1/8 × 20 1/8 × 5/8 in.
Framed: 16 1/8 × 20 1/8 × 5/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.11
Accession number
2006.11
On View
Not on viewLabel TextBeginning in 1929, Georgia O'Keeffe spent part of almost every year in New Mexico. She found great beauty in the intensity of the natural world in the Southwest. The stunning environment provided her inspiration for many landscape paintings including Small Purple Hills. She often played with scale in her work, exploring both grand expanses and intimate details with equal attention. In Feather and Brown Leaf, she focused closely on the forms of organic objects whose particular qualities she thought reflected the place.
Markingson verso, c., printed on sticker: Haywood Gallery London [illegible] 071-928-3144 / Exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe American & Modern 1993 / [illegible] no. 68 / artist Georgia O'Keeffe / title Small Purple Hills 1934 / [illegible] Private Collection
on verso, c., printed on sticker: National Gallery of Art / Washington, D.C. / Exhibition GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, 1887-1956 / Date: 1 Nov. 87 - 21 Feb. 89 Cat. #095 / Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe / Title: Small Purple Hills / Lender: The Estate of Georgia O'Keeffe
on verso, l.l., printed on sticker: LACMA / FR.AM.134
on verso, l.r., handwritten and printed on sticker: 12
