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Watercolor on paper, newsprint*, 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches
CR No. 211
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In this abstract landscape, a large, arch-shaped blue sky features a glowing sun at its center. Below the form is a horizon line and an expanse of dark blue land. Surrounding the image is the plain, unpainted surface of the paper.
CR No. 211
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
No. III Light Coming on the Plains
Source of title: backing inscriptions in museum file: 'No III / Light Coming on the Plains / 1917 / Watercolor on paper / 12 x 9 / Baker 24-680'(label printed by O'Keeffe (red), blue ink).
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Light Coming on the Plains III
Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.
Light Coming on the Plains No. III
Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks. (Title used by Amon Carter Museum of American Art.)
General Remarks
Not recorded Whitney Archive. Pictured in 1923 New York (Anderson) Stieglitz installation photograph, see Appendix III, figure 21. See cat. no. 81. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Watercolor
Materials
Watercolor on paper, newsprint*
Extended Medium Description
Watercolor on thin, beige, smooth wove paper, newsprint
(Source: Paper Survey researched by Judith C. Walsh and published in Lynes, 1999.)
1966
Amon Carter Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFA H) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: An Exhibition of the Work of the Artist from 1915 to 1966)
1969
1977
1979
Städtische Kunsthalle (as 2 Jahrzehnte Amerikanische Malerei)
Kunsthaus Zürich (as 2 Jahrzehnte Amerikanische Malerei)
Palais des Beaux-Arts (as 2 Jahrzehnte Amerikanische Malerei)
1980
McKissick Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe and her Circle)
Gibbes Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe and her Circle)
1987–1989
National Gallery of Art (NGA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Institute of Chicago (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
2007–2008
Norton Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction and Georgia O'Keeffe, Illuminated: Photographs by Tony Vaccaro)
1958
Downtown Gallery (The) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916–17)
Downtown Gallery (The) (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916–17)
© Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Version History
Core fields last updated 3/30/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
8353
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