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Black Place II

1944
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 903
"The Black Place" was the name O'Keeffe gave to one of her favorite painting sites in New Mexico. It was a stretch of desolate hills that she said looked, from a distance, like "a mile of elephants." Over a period of fourteen years (1936–49), this place inspired a torrent of work in paint, pastel, and pencil. Most often, she featured the jagged juncture of two hills, as in this fairly abstract interpretation of the scene.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Black Place II
  • Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
  • Date: 1944
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 23 7/8 × 30 in. (60.6 × 76.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.204.1
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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