Palo Duro Canyon paintings of O'Keeffe

Inspired by the principles of Arthur Wesley Dow and the Texas landscape, O'Keeffe made paintings using vibrant red, blue and yellow colors.^[5] About 1916, she used brilliant red and yellow colors in Special #21: Palo Duro Canyon, which belongs to the New Mexico Museum of Art. It was stolen in December 2003 and has not been recovered.^[5] Red Landscape is an abstract expressionist oil painting made in 1916–1917 of the bright red canyon walls,^[1] which are the Permian Red Beds from the Jurassic era. A yellow sun shines below a dark sky.^[6] Canyon with Crows, a watercolor made in 1917, "depicts a deep purple arroyo that lightens higher to yellows and orange while impressionistic black crows hover in a pale blue sky."^[6]

McNay Art Museum in San Antonio held the "O'Keeffe and Texas" exhibit, curated by art historian Sharyn Udall in 1998 show.^[6] In 2016, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum exhibited some of the works from Palo Duro Canyon in the "Georgia O'Keeffe’s Far Wide Texas" exhibit, the theme of which was "Becoming a Modern Artist".^[5] It was curated by Carolyn Kastner. The Georgia O’Keeffe: Watercolors 1916-1918 catalog, with more than 40 full-scale reproductions, accompanied the exhibit.^[2][5]

• Paul H. Carlson; John T. Becker (2012). Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas: a guide. Buffalo Gap, Texas: State House Press. ISBN 978-1933337494.
• Georgia O'Keeffe; Amy von Lintel (text) (2016). Watercolors: 1916-1918. Radius Books and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. ISBN 9781942185048.
• Fred Stoker (1990). Georgia O'Keeffe and Texas. Canyon, Texas: Hunnicutt & Sons Printing. ASIN B00260RTKG – via Cornette Library, West Texas A&M University.
• Sharyn R. Udall; Harry N. Abrams (1998). O'Keeffe and Texas. San Antonio, Texas: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. ISBN 0810963566.