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Georgia O'Keeffe
Portrait – W – No. III, 1917
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR194_portrait-w-no-iii_789876.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Portrait – W – No. III, 1917
Watercolor on paper, 12 x 8 7/8 inches
CR No. 194
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.16
Watercolor on paper, 12 x 8 7/8 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation
1997.4.16
CR No. 194

Horizontal watercolor abstraction with dominant black, and bleeding blue with cloudy area.

CR No. 194

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Portrait – W – No. III

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.

Selected Exhibition Titles

Portrait-W-No. III
Four Painters of the Stieglitz Circle, 1999, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Inscriptions

Verso: "#3" (unidentified hand, graphite) (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 8/26/2026

Source System ID

30

Other IDs

194, Catalogue Raisonné