Light Coming on the Plains

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rdf:langString —Georgia O'Keeffe

rdf:langString Light Coming on the Plains No. I

rdf:langString Light Coming on the Plains No. II

rdf:langString Light Coming on the Plains No. III

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rdf:langString Watercolors made by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1917 that are in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

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rdf:langString O'Keeffe Light coming on the Plains No. 1.jpg

rdf:langString My first memory is of the brightness of light—light all around.

rdf:langString Light Coming on the Plains is the name of three watercolor paintings made by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1917. They were made when O'Keeffe was teaching at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. They reflect the evolution of her work towards pure abstraction, and an early American modernist landscape. It was unique for its time. Compared to Sunrise that she painted one year earlier, it was simpler and more abstract. Striving to design harmonious paintings that are an interpretation of her feelings about the subject, she created a work of the Texas plains and wide open skies—and particularly the sunrises found there— that were wondrous to her. It has been called a radical work of art, and Light Coming on the Plains III is considered one of the best paintings of the skies by Laura Cumming of The Guardian.