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Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches
CR No. 1479
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Small white clouds dot an expanse of blue sky stretching below the viewer. Near the top of the canvas, a horizon line separates this from a band of pink sky that hangs overhead.
CR No. 1479
Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Sky Above Clouds III/Above the Clouds III
Source of title: backing inscriptions 1, 2, Downtown Gallery Archive, Abiquiú Notebooks.
Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)
Sky Above Clouds, III
Source of title: Whitney Archive in 1969.
General Remarks
Titled Sky Above Clouds III by O'Keeffe on Abiquiú Notebooks photograph. (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Inscriptions
Stretcher: inaccessible Verso: inaccessible Backing: 1 "Georgia O'Keeffe / Sky Above Clouds III / 1963 III" (black ink) 2. "Above the Clouds III / 1963?" (black ink) (Source: Lynes, 1999)
Technique
Oil Painting
Materials
Oil on canvas
1966
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)
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)
1998
2009–2010
Whitney Museum of American Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction)
2016–2017
Tate Modern (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Kunstforum Wien (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
Art Gallery of Ontario (as Georgia O'Keeffe)
1999–2000
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Dallas Museum of Art (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
The Phillips Collection (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (as Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things)
2003–2004
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Version History
Core fields last updated 5/20/2026
Last verified by current collection
Source System ID
9456
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