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Georgia O'Keeffe
Evening Star No. VII, 1917
Georgia O'Keeffe
Evening Star No. VII, 1917
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.6.33

Watercolor of a reddish sky dominated by the glow of a star, over a dark blue landscape. The entire pictorial surface is filled with bleeding bands of fluid blue and red hues, which radiate outward from a pale yellow star in the upper left of the composition.
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Catalogue Raisonné Number

205

Provenance

(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.) ^Private collection, 1962 ^(Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, N.Y.) ^Bill Dean, New York, N.Y., 1985 ^Daniel Liberman, St. Louis, Mo.. 1985 ^Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1986 ^Private collection, Excelsior, Minn., 1986 ^Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 1988 ^Private collection, San Antonio, Tex., 1988 ^Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Tex., 1991 ^(Ronnie Meyerson Inc., Bayville, N.Y.) ^Private collection, Seattle, Wash., 1993 ^(Ronnie Meyerson Inc., Bayville, N.Y.) ^Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, Mo., 1996 ^The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996

Exhibition History

1958 New York (Downtown-Watercolor), no. 48
1967 Santa Barbara, no. 25
1985 Santa Fe, no. 21
1997 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Inaugural
2002 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Edward Weston)
2003 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz: Gift of GOKF
2006 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Paul Strand)
2008 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (GOK and the Camera)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Modernists in NM)
2009 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Permanent Collection (Beyond Our Shores/Jimson Weed Returns)
2010 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) GOK: Abstraction; all venues
2016 Santa Fe (O'Keeffe) Georgia O'Keeffe's Farwide Texas
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