Art, literature & history
Cliffs Beyond Abiquiú, Dry Waterfall
1943
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 79.5 x 44 x 5.1 cm (31 5/16 x 17 5/16 x 2 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 40.6 cm (30 x 16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1987.141
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- Georgia O'Keeffe Fair Use (WikiArt source label)License details
Georgia O'Keeffe. Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall. WikiArt source label: Georgia O'Keeffe Fair Use. Proportional resize and JPEG compression; no crop. Source: https://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/cliffs-beyond-abiquiu-dry-waterfall
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Cliffs Beyond Abiquiú, Dry Waterfall — Georgia O'Keeffe. 1943.
Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: Framed: 79.5 x 44 x 5.1 cm (31 5/16 x 17 5/16 x 2 in.); Unframed: 76.2 x 40.6 cm (30 x 16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Weary from social duties in Manhattan that distracted her from making art, O’Keeffe spent increasing time in rural New Mexico near the village of Abiquiú, eventually moving there permanently. As evidenced here, the multicolored cliffs near her home at Ghost Ranch provided subject matter for her painting. Upon her death, the artist bequeathed this canvas—along with four others—to the Cleveland Museum of Art, an early supporter of her work.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.