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Georgia O'Keeffe
Sunrise and Little Clouds No. II, 1916
Georgia O'Keeffe
Sunrise and Little Clouds No. II, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 12 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.18.1

Loose watercolor with bands of horizontal colors: a strip of muddy brown along the bottom, layered above with a bleeding line of reddish to yellow in the middle. Above it turns to purplish-blue dotted with scattered orange areas as if small clouds.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

134

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1986 ^Private collection, Milwaukee, Wisc., 1988 ^The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996

Exhibition History

1917 New York (291)
1958 New York (Downtown--Watercolor), no. 20
1960 Minneapolis
1987 Washington, no. 19
1989 Milwaukee, no. 9
1993 London (Hayward), no. 13
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
1998 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent
1999 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Four Painters of the Stieglitz Circle
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Debating American Modernism)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz: Gift of GOKF
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Georgia O'Keeffe's Farwide Texas
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
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105