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Georgia O'Keeffe American
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In 1940, O’Keeffe purchased a house at Ghost Ranch in the Chama River valley of New Mexico. She spent her summers and falls at Ghost Ranch, where she painted the breathtaking views, including these immense red, pink, and yellow striated cliffs that rose up seven hundred feet behind her house. Dotted with green shrubs, the landscape faithfully reproduces the vibrant colors of the American Southwest. The immensity of these geologic outcroppings are emphasized by the tiny patch of blue sky at the top left. Awed by these colorful cliffs, O’Keeffe painted them seven times.
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Title: Red and Yellow Cliffs
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 × 36 in. (61 × 91.4 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1986
Accession Number: 1987.377.4
Timeline of Art History
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and American Photography
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and His Circle
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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
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Precisionism
Chronology
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present
Museum Publications
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1987–1988
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