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Georgia O'Keeffe. Church Bell, Ward, Colorado, 1917. Oil on board, 17 3/8 in x 13 7/8 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe), Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.72]
The central focus of this painting is the church bell situated in a small belltower at the top of a sharply-pointed church roof. The church building itself has been cropped from the image. In the middleground, several small houses and buildings dot the landscape. The background consists of heavily-wooded mountains that recede into the distance, fading into softer colors as they do so.
In 1917, Georgia O’Keeffe was teaching in the town of Canyon, in west Texas, when she traveled by train to vacation in Colorado with her sister. That summer she worked almost exclusively in watercolor and filled many pages of her sketchbook during this trip. In contrast to these works on paper, this painting was executed in oil on board—more portable than a stretched canvas. The train that carried O’Keeffe back home to Texas in fact passed through New Mexico, offering her a first glimpse of the state, though it would be another twelve years before she would return.
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