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Georgia O'Keeffe
Evening, 1916
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR104_evening_789905.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Evening, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 12 inches
CR No. 104
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.9
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 12 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.9
CR No. 104

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.

CR No. 104

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Evening

Source of title: backing inscription, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. "H 16" on backing inscription is Downtown Gallery inventory number. Completed in Virginia before August move to Texas, on basis of Stieglitz–O'Keeffe correspondence. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso: "16 Evening" (unidentified hand, graphite) Backing: "H 16 / Evening 1916 / 1916 / Watercolor / 9 x 12 / Paper / Baker 24-946" (Label: printed, O'Keeffe (red-bordered), black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Watercolor

Materials

Watercolor on paper

Extended Medium Description

Watercolor on moderately thick, cream, smooth wove paper with a slightly fuzzy feel
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)

Estate of the artist, 1986
The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, N.Mex., 1993
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996 (partial share)
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 11/6/2026

Source System ID

23

Other IDs

104, Catalogue Raisonné