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Georgia O'Keeffe
Sunrise and Little Clouds No. II, 1916
Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Image: okeeffe_CR134_sunrise-and-little-clouds-no-ii_789917.jpg
Georgia O'Keeffe
Sunrise and Little Clouds No. II, 1916
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 12 inches
CR No. 134
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.18.1
Watercolor on paper, 8 7/8 x 12 inches
Gift of The Burnett Foundation
1997.18.1
CR No. 134

Loose watercolor with bands of horizontal colors: a strip of muddy brown along the bottom, layered above with a bleeding line of reddish to yellow in the middle. Above it turns to purplish-blue dotted with scattered orange areas as if small clouds.

CR No. 134

Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Sunrise and Little Clouds No. II

Source of title: Abiquiú Notebooks.

Alternate Title (1999 Catalogue Raisonné)

Sunrise and Little Clouds II

Source of title: Downtown Gallery Archive.

General Remarks

Not recorded Whitney 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 on paper

Extended Medium Description

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

Estate of the artist, 1986
Private collection, Milwaukee, Wisc., 1988
The Burnett Foundation, Fort Worth, Tex., 1996
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 7/2/2026

Source System ID

105

Other IDs

134, Catalogue Raisonné