Red Hills with Flowers

Red Hills with Flowers — Georgia O'Keeffe. 1940.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 30.5 × 76.5 cm (12 × 30 1/8 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Georgia O’Keeffe frequently explored the Southwestern landscape in search of noteworthy views, and in the summer of 1940, she found an inspiring sight: “The places you can go on a horse here always astonish me . . . the most exciting was being on top of a ridge of red hills and seeing the blue flat topped mountains above them—it was very good.” She painted Red Hills with Flowers a month later, depicting bushes of small white flowers growing from the eroded gullies of the red badland, with the blue mesa barely visible to the right. O’Keeffe housed it in a thin strip frame made of a silver metal that she had partially plated with copper to complement the composition’s color scheme.

Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.

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