Evening, 1916
Evening, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 12 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.9
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Horizontal watercolor of a blue hill with a half moon in the evening sky. Foreground is a lavender field dotted sparsely with blue strokes of color suggesting bushes or trees. Gently rounded blue hill in the middle, with a lighter blue sky above, with an orange slice moon hanging just above the hill in the middle of the sky.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number
104
Inscriptions
Verso: "16 Evening" (unidentifed hand, graphite)Backing: "H 16 / Evening 1916 / 1916 / Watercolor / 9 x 12 /
Paper / Baker 24-946" (OKR, black ink)
Provenance
The Burnett Foundation (partial share) 1996 Fort Worth/Texas, The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation 1993 Abiquiu/New Mexico, Estate of the artist, 1986 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993 The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share) Georgia O'Keeffe 1986Exhibition History
1958 New York (Downtown--Watercolor), no. 161959 Lincoln
1959 Bennington, no. 28
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
2001 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Stieglitz / Frames of Preference)
2005 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and Andy Warhol: Flowers)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Hartley)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Jaune Quick-to-See Smith)
2012 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Faraway)
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© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift
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