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Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 12 inches
CR No. 204
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Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.18.3
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Horizontal watercolor with yellow circle in upper left corner, surrounded by a larger partial circle in vibrant red. The rest of the page is filled out with red, and a stripe of dark blue along the bottom edge.
CR No. 204
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Evening Star No. VI
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Selected Exhibition Titles
Evening Star VI
Inaugural Exhibition, 1997, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Evening Star VI
An Expanding Collection, 1998, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive. Abiquiú Notebooks indicates lost inscription, "Back: O'K: "No. 6" [No. 6 is Downtown Gallery inventory number] Received in exchange in 1971 for cat. no 797. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 21. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Watercolor
Materials
Watercolor on paper
Extended Medium Description
Watercolor on moderately thick, cream, smooth, wove paper
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)
1958
1970–1971
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA)
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
1993–1994
Hayward Gallery
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
Yokohama Museum of Art
1997–1998
1998–1999
1999–2000
2000
2001–2002
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Milwaukee Art Museum
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
2011–2012
2021–2022
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
Centre Georges Pompidou
Fondation Beyeler
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.)
Dr. Wilfred C. Hulse, New York, N.Y., 1961
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.)
The artist, return, 1962
(The Downtown Gallery, New York, N.Y.)
Dr. Milton M. Gardner, Merrick, N.Y., 1962
(Doris Bry, New York, N.Y.)
The artist, exchange, 1971
Estate of the artist, 1986
Private collection, Milwaukee, Wisc., 1988
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1997
Gift to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 1997
(Source: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2026)
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Version History
Core fields last updated 7/22/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
104
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