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Georgia O'Keeffe
Train at Night in the Desert, 1916
Courtesy of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Train at Night in the Desert, 1916
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches
CR No. 129
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches
CR No. 129

Billows of white and yellow smoke escape from a black and blue teardrop form at the left of the composition. The form, which resembles a far-off train, also has a point of yellow and white light at its center. A curving form emerges from the base of this train. The background of the work is a gradient that transitions from light gray at the bottom of the paper to black at the top.

CR No. 129

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Train at Night in the Desert

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks after 1977.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney Archive, Downtown Gallery Archive. Completed after August move to Texas. Pictured in 1917 New York (291) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 6. (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Technique

Watercolor

Materials

Watercolor and graphite on paper

Extended Medium Description

Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, cream, slightly textured wove paper
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)

Harold Diamond, New York, NY, purchase, 1976; (Doris Bry, New York, NY) (Source: Lynes, 1999)

Credits & Rights

© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Administrative Information

Version History

Core fields last updated 10/29/2026

Source System ID

8307

Other IDs

129, Catalogue Raisonné