Some information is also included here about the papers on which the Canyon Suite works were painted. The catalogue principals have declined to discuss any such details, and some of those have been obtained from other sources. A group of somewhat more accomplished watercolors, yet in a generic vein and lacking convincing clues of O'Keeffe's hand. The largest group, tougher calls that carry strong echoes of O'Keeffe but that ultimately also fail to convince. The Easily Dismissed Abstraction, Pink and Green A clunky work that lacks O'Keeffe's sure hand.
Colors are muddy and faded compared with most of the real things.
On a paperboard apparently never used by O'Keeffe. This is reminiscent of some images O'Keeffe made in Virginia before her 18 months in Texas, but its blotchy, confused surface argues loudly and convincingly against it. On a paperboard salvaged from something like an old shirt box. Dusk in the Canyon A conventional landscape whose muted colors and haphazard brushwork argue against its claim to O'Keeffedom. Also on paperboard.